The Cross Gates Hotel

The Cross Gates Hotel is an inn, dated 1724 and built for Thomas Wilde, although it may incorporate an earlier core. It is constructed of painted brick with a hipped, 20th-century machine tile roof, and has an L-shaped plan.

The east front has a rendered plinth, plat bands above the ground and first-floor windows, a parapeted gable end to the rear, and five gabled dormers with two-light wooden casements. A brick ridge stack is positioned off-centre to the right, and another brick ridge stack along with an integral brick end stack are present in the rear wing to the left. The front has four windows. It features 19th-century two- and three-light wooden mullioned and transomed segmental-headed casements. A half-glazed door with two lower flush panels and a two-part rectangular overlight is set between the first and second windows from the left, and it is framed by an early 19th-century doorcase featuring panelled pilasters and tall shaped brackets supporting a hood. A segmental-headed half-glazed door, also with a two-part rectangular overlight, is to the right. A doorway has been blocked between the second and third windows from the right. A moulded datestone, bearing "W T M 1724", is located between the first and second first-floor windows from the left. Two large, probably 19th-century sign boards flank the left-hand ground-floor windows. The right-hand portion appears to have been built slightly later than the rest, indicated by a break in the plat bands. A probably 19th-century painted rubble lean-to addition is on the right, with a large three-light window to the front.

The left-hand return front has windows, gabled dormers, first-floor cross-casements, and ground-floor windows that have been altered with probably late 19th-century canted bays. A central ground-floor sign board is present. A one-storey late 19th-century addition is to the left, featuring an integral brick end stack and a three-light segmental-headed casement to the front. There are two gabled wings in the angle at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.

An inn on this site was first mentioned in 1643, when it was owned by the Morris family. Thomas Wilde bought it in 1712 and is said to have enlarged it by incorporating it with a nearby house at right angles to the north, creating the present plan.