The Four Crosses Inn is a Grade II listed building in the South Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1953. Inn.
The Four Crosses Inn
- WRENN ID
- sombre-thatch-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge MP: Sir Gavin Williamson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1953
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Four Crosses Inn, Watling Street, Hatherton, WS11 1RX
- OS grid reference
- SJ 954 094
- Coordinates
- 52.68311, -2.06914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Four Crosses Inn is an inn dated 1636, with extensions made around 1700 and a restoration in the mid-18th century in 1925. The original 17th-century structure features timber framing with close studding, a middle rail, and diagonal braces arranged in herringbone patterns. The building has a red brick extension and plain tile roofs, with a brick ridge stack. It is L-shaped, with the main range from 1636 aligned east-west and facing north, and a crosswing to the east that projects north, along with a porch in the re-entrant angle between the two sections. The extension consists of two parallel ranges to the east, aligned north-south, with a mid-18th-century rear extension wing to the west.
The original building from 1636 is two storeys high with an attic and has a three-window front. To the left, there is a full-height gabled porch with jettied upper floors, diagonally placed angle brackets, and balusters beneath the attic window. The attic bresummer is inscribed "1636 N / 1 E," and a rail over the ground floor window bears the inscription "NERES SISCIRES UNUM TUA TEMPORA MESEM RIDES CUN NON SIT FORSITAN UNA DIES." There is also a single-storey 20th-century gabled porch in the angle between the original porch and the main range.
The circa 1700 extension is three storeys tall, featuring quoins of unequal length and a coped parapet that ramps down at the ends, containing blind panels above the windows. It has two windows, which are 19th and 20th-century casements with gauged brick heads, raised keystones, and aprons. On the first floor to the left, there is a 20th-century wooden sign board suspended from a cantilevered beam. A six-panel door to the right is set within a former window opening. The mid-18th-century rear wing is two storeys high, with ashlar quoins of unequal length and an ashlar storey band, featuring casement windows with segmental heads.
Inside, the building has chamfered and stopped ceiling beams.
Local climate
The Four Crosses Inn receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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