Golden Cross Hotel

The Golden Cross Hotel is a public house located on Lancaster Road, dating from around 1860, with some alterations. It is constructed of brown brick, partly stuccoed, with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The building has a double-depth plan with a rear wing and is designed in a classical style. It stands three storeys tall, with cellars and an attic, featuring three symmetrical bays. The ground floor showcases pilasters and banded rustication, along with a cornice, while the upper floors have rusticated quoins, a frieze with triglyphs and guttae, and a prominent cornice with mutules and a blocking course.

The ground floor includes a central doorway flanked by narrow vertical-rectangular windows and wider windows beyond, all with panelled aprons and framed by broad pilasters that terminate in large foliated consoles supporting a cornice. The first floor features 2-light casement windows, with the outer bays having pedimented architraves and the central window having a simple moulded surround with a straight cornice. The second floor has sashed windows without glazing bars, all with shouldered surrounds; the outer bays include small decorated crests, and there is a plain band above with raised lettering stating "GOLDEN CROSS HOTEL." The building has gable chimneys.

On the left return wall, there are two doorways with raised plain surrounds and small cornices, one of which is blocked. Between these doorways are two sashes with arched glazing and stained glass spandrels, along with two 12-pane sashes on each floor above; the leftmost first-floor sash has altered glazing in the lower leaf, and there are two narrow 4-pane sashes at attic level. A short wing extends to the rear, featuring altered windows and a mono-pitch roof. The rear of the building has sashed windows with 12 and 4 panes at the ground floor, 12 panes at the first floor, and 4 panes at the second floor.

The interior has been altered on the ground floor, but the upper floors were not inspected. The Golden Cross Hotel is part of a block that includes Nos. 50 to 58, and it has strong group value with the Town Hall and Amounderness House opposite, as well as visual similarities to Nos. 12 to 24 to the south.