17, Old Cross

17 Old Cross is a house that later became a public house and is now a shop with a flat above. It dates from the early 17th century and has 19th-century alterations. The ground floor is made of red brick, while the first floor is stucco, topped with an old tiled roof. The building has a two-cell plan, with fireplaces on the rear wall and tall brick chimneystacks at the back, with a stair situated between them.

The exterior features two storeys and attics. On the first floor, there are two almost flush-set, three-light small-paned wood casement windows, which are recessed in moulded surrounds. The ground floor has a nearly full-width shopfront with a central doorway that includes a recessed four-pane half-glazed door, along with outer twin leaf three-paned doors and a boarded fanlight. The timber shop windows, above brick stallrisers, have moulded mullions and transoms, featuring a semicircular arched motif in the centre light, and continuous shallow pierced cast-iron ventilation panels across the top. Carved foliated consoles are located at the ends of the continuous fascia, which has a dentil frieze and moulded cornice. Internally, the building is timber-framed. The roof features a moulded wood eaves cornice and two three-light small-paned casement box dormers with lead flat roofs.

At the rear, there are projecting pebbledashed gabled outshoots and a 19th-century single-storey colourwashed brick extension, which has 20th-century French windows and a Welsh slated lean-to roof.

Inside, the ground floor front has been opened up as a single room and features 18th-century bolection moulded panelling, chamfered exposed beams, and a fireplace on the left side of the rear wall with a charred timber bressumer. There is a cellar beneath the front room, accessed through a vaulted corridor below the stair behind the fireplace. The first floor is reached by a 20th-century single flight stair that connects to a 17th-century newel stair with winders. The first floor has exposed beams with chamfer, stop, and tongue. There are two attics with ledged planked doors fitted with T-hinges. The roof structure includes butt purlins, with common rafters that are concealed.