The Cross Keys Public House

The Cross Keys Public House is a public house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with later extensions in the 17th century and a refronting and further extensions in the mid-19th century. It features a timber frame with red brick casing and additions, topped by steeply pitched roofs of black glazed and red pantiles. The building has a three-cell plan with an early bay added to the rear, which was later extended to the right for service purposes. It stands two storeys high with an attic.

The entrance includes recessed vertically panelled doors in both the lobby and cross entrance positions, framed by architraves with hoodmoulds. The windows are transomed three-light 19th-century part opening glazing bar casements, surrounded by heavily moulded surrounds and hoodmoulds. The building has a plinth and boxed eaves. An axial ridge stack is located between the hall and parlour on the left side, featuring an oversailing cap, while the original right end has a cross axial stack with three 19th-century diagonally set shafts and oversailing caps.

On the right gable end, there are transomed two-light casements with hoodmoulds and pierced wavy bargeboards. The left gable end is plastered and features a two-light attic casement with a hoodmould and similar bargeboards, along with a single-storey 19th-century outbuilding attached to the left. At the rear centre, there is an early one-bay, one-storey and attic gabled addition that is plastered, featuring an architraved 16-pane sash and a two-light glazing bar casement, with exposed plates and purlins. The right return has a rebuilt stack in a later lean-to, while behind the parlour end is a 20th-century lean-to, and behind the plastered service end is a brick lean-to with a six-panelled door.

Inside, the frame is concealed, with jowled storey posts and a stop-chamfered axial binding beam in the hall. In the rear bay, there is an indented stop-chamfered binding beam on moulded posts and an early 19th-century lugged fireplace surround. The first floor has not been inspected.