Cross Keys Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Public house.
Cross Keys Public House
- WRENN ID
- brooding-gable-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Cross Keys Public House, Lamer Lane, Wheathampstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 174 164
- Coordinates
- 51.83443, -0.29678
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cross Keys Public House is a public house that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It has a timber frame that is cased in red brick from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The building features a gabled cross wing on the right and has a plain tile roof. A 17th-century ridge chimney stack is located next to the cross wing, which has three joined square shafts and a corbel cornice. The structure is two storeys high and has three 19th-century casement windows, with the ground floor windows having four lights and segmental heads. There is a central door that is also segmental-headed.
Local climate
Cross Keys Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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