Cross Keys Inn

The Cross Keys Inn is a public house located in Wymondham, primarily dating from the early 17th century, although it features extensive 16th-century timber elements in the ground floor east room. The building has undergone significant alterations in the 20th century. It is timber-framed with some brick and has roofs covered with black glazed pantiles. The structure consists of two storeys and a dormer attic, divided into two distinct sections. The eastern portion has 20th-century windows and doors on the ground floor, with a jettied first floor supported by a roll and keel-moulded bressumer. The first floor also displays exposed studs, one 4-light and one 3-light first-floor mullioned casements, and a gabled roof featuring two gabled dormers fitted with 3-light late 18th-century casements. There is an internal gable-end stack on the east side. The western portion follows a similar design, with a bressumer to the jetty that is boarded over, and the upper studwork is false, featuring one gabled dormer with a casement. This part may be an early 20th-century copy of the eastern section.

Inside, the building has been opened out, revealing a large open fireplace on the east wall beneath a multiple rolled and hollow 16th-century bressumer. The bridging beam and spine beam also showcase 16th-century roll mouldings. A rear jetty bressumer is still visible within later rear additions. The first floor features very large jowled principal studs of 16th-century character, along with an arched brace connecting the tie beam to the centre front room. The roof structure consists of two tiers of butt purlins and collars.