The Cross Keys And Attached Yard Gateway And Wall

The Cross Keys public house, along with its attached yard gateway and wall, was built in 1904 by Frank Raney of Stonegate for CJ Melrose and Co. The building's design combines varied materials and styles. The front facing Goodramgate is constructed of orange brick in English garden-wall and stretcher bonds, with a faience facade, faience dressings, and a planted timber frame with plaster infill on the first floor of the Deangate frontage. The Goodramgate front has a moulded plinth and capping. The central entrance features glazed and panelled double doors with a transom overlight, flanked by tripartite windows with etched frosted glazing depicting bar names and crossed key motifs. First-floor windows are sash windows with 8-pane top lights and 1-pane lower lights, set within pilasters with voluted heads, heavy pulvinated friezes and dentilled cornices with scrolled pediments. The central gable features moulded kneelers, relief mouldings of crossed keys within a foliate cartouche, and the date 1904 set within a flat hoodmould, all in faience. The Deangate front has gabled outer bays and a panelled entrance door with a glazed oculus. The yard wall, approximately 1.75 metres high, features moulded stone coping and piers with cornices and ball finials. The two-leaved gates have a segmental head set within long bifurcated strap hinges. The public house was rebuilt on the site of an earlier building, coinciding with the creation of Deangate in 1903. The interior was not inspected. A corbelled-out stack rises through the cornice and the base of the roof pitch in the corner bay to Goodramgate.