The Greenway Hotel

The Greenway Hotel is a large house now used as a hotel, formerly known as Shurdington House or Manor. It was built in the early 17th century by the Lawrence family and subsequently altered and extended in 1835 and 1865. It was restored and extended around 1910 for Archdeacon Sinclair by the architect Ernest Newton.

The building is pebble-dashed with exposed squared and dressed stone quoins, and has a stone slate roof with ashlar stacks. The original 17th-century house was H-shaped in plan. In the 19th century, a flat-roofed extension was added to the former library on the south side. Newton's early 20th-century work added projecting wings to the east front in the same style as the main body, accentuating the H-shaped plan, and linked the main house to another 17th-century building to the north.

The 17th-century ranges comprise 2 storeys and an attic with a cellar under the principal range, while the 19th-century linking range is 1½ storeys tall.

The entrance front of the main body has a symmetrical 1:1:2:1:1 window arrangement. Gables project forwards on the left and right with rectangular 19th-century three-light bay windows to the ground floor, and 19th-century four-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned casements with transoms above. Each gable has 3-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods. The central gable features single bays with gabled parapets projecting forwards slightly on either side, wood-mullioned cross windows to the ground floor, and 19th-century ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows to the first floor. A central 19th-century flat-roofed porch stands in front of the central gable. Continuous dripmoulds run over the ground and first floor windows.

The southern elevation features three gables and is lit by stone-mullioned cross windows with 2-light stone-mullioned casements to the gables. The early 20th-century eastern elevation also has triple gables, lit by paired stone-mullioned cross windows with king mullions to the ground floor and 3-light casements with hoods to the gables. A plank door within a 19th-century moulded Tudor-arched surround to the central gable now acts as the entrance to a 20th-century conservatory between the two projecting gables. Most windows to the main body have leaded panes.

The linking range on the north of the main body is lit by stone-mullioned casements in a similar style. The twin-gabled west front to the formerly separate 17th-century building features single-light and 2-light stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods, and one 4-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned casement. The casements lighting the gables contain early-leaded panes.

Lead rainwater goods include rainwater heads dated and initialled "W.L. 1816". Some early rainwater heads on the subsidiary 17th-century building feature oak leaf, 4-petal flower and lozenge motifs. The building has axial and lateral composite stacks with moulded cappings, saddleback coping and pointed finials (some now lost) to the main body, and stepped coping and roll-cross saddles to the subsidiary 17th-century building. An octagonal standing for a late 18th-century cupola, which replaced a 17th-century square roof-top study, stands behind the central gable on the east; the cupola was removed around 1970.

The interior contains a mid-18th-century stone fireplace in the entrance hall with a lugged surround featuring a gadrooned inner margin and a swan-necked pediment with foliage and grapes at the centre. It has a moulded mantel shelf and stone panels decorated with fruit and scallop shell motifs below a broken triangular pediment. Eighteenth-century style round-headed archways with fluted pilasters are present throughout. An early 20th-century staircase features turned balusters and ball finials, with a shell-headed shelved alcove on the quarter landing. The former Drawing Room contains early 20th-century panelling incorporating reused 17th-century carved panels at the top. An early 20th-century Tudor-arched fireplace with carved spandrels displays a 17th-century carved oak overmantel featuring 3 round-headed alcoves with gadrooned arches and Ionic capitals, carnation-like flowers on the columns, and further decoration in the form of lions' heads, grotesque human heads and S-curve dragons.