The Cross Keys Public House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Public house, inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Cross Keys Public House
- WRENN ID
- stark-eave-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Public house, inn
- Address
- The Cross Keys Public House, Stanhope, DL13 2HW
- OS grid reference
- NY 952 387
- Coordinates
- 54.74364, -2.07597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cross Keys Public House is an inn that was originally two houses, dating from the early to mid-18th century. It is built of coursed sandstone rubble, with some quoins and ashlar dressings, and features a stone-flagged roof. The building has two storeys and a symmetrical facade with two windows on each side.
The left part of the building has a boarded door on the right within a plain stone surround, a central ground-floor tripartite sash window with a flat stone lintel and sill, and similar first-floor casements with two and one lights. There are small windows located at the eaves.
The second house has a central boarded door in a plain stone surround, late 19th-century sash windows, and small square lights at the eaves, with the right light being blocked. Each house has an end chimney.
Local climate
The Cross Keys Public House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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