The Cross Keys is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. Public house. 5 related planning applications.
The Cross Keys
- WRENN ID
- burning-transept-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1984
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Cross Keys, Church Road, Pangbourne, RG8 7AR
- OS grid reference
- SU 634 764
- Coordinates
- 51.48333, -1.08731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cross Keys is a public house built in the early to mid 18th century, with 19th-century alterations and additions at the rear. It features white painted brick and a plat band, topped with a wooden dentil eaves cornice and an old tile hipped roof, which has a 19th-century hipped range at the back. The building has an off-centre ridge stack above the entrance on the right, another ridge stack off-centre to the left, a stack at the rear, and a large central early 20th-century gable with planted black timbers and a bracket for a sign.
The structure is two storeys high and has five first-floor windows: glazing bar sashes in the first and fourth positions from the right, and 2-light casements in the second, third, and fifth positions. There is a central blank window featuring a black keystone and cross keys on a black background, flanked by pilaster strips. To the left of this window is a blank window with a lamp bracket, and there is another blank window between the fourth and fifth windows from the right.
On the ground floor, there are four windows: twin glazing bar sashes to the left, a 2-light casement to the right, a 3-light casement second from the right, and a 4-light casement third from the right, which has a segmental head over the right-hand part. There is a blocked segmental-headed door to the left and a blocked segmental-headed window between the first and second windows from the left. A 20th-century boarded door is located off-centre to the right between the second and third windows from the right, and there is a gabled brick porch with a depressed arch.
Local climate
The Cross Keys sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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