Cross Keys Cottage Cross Keys Cottages

The building comprises a house and two cottages, known as Cross Keys Cottage and Nos. 1 and 2 Cross Keys Cottages. Cross Keys Cottage itself dates from the late 16th or early 17th century, while the two later cottages were built in the early to mid-19th century.

Cross Keys Cottage is timber-framed and has a painted pebble-dash exterior with applied framing on the front elevation's first floor. It has a plain tiled roof and is built at right angles to the street. The cottage is two storeys high with attics, and the roof is half-hipped at the left end and hipped to the right. There is no visible chimney stack. Three dormers are present, with ornamental bargeboards; two face the front elevation and one is located in the right-hand hip. The front has three timber-framed bays and an irregular arrangement of three glazing-bar sash windows, one to the left and two towards the right. A two-light window with ovolo-moulded mullions is positioned to the right of the leftmost sash. A 20th-century glazed door is centrally located to the left, positioned beneath the mullioned window and sheltered by a 20th-century glazed porch with a pitched, plain-tiled roof. A small 20th-century extension is attached to the right. Inside, the cottage retains exposed beams, joists and posts.

Nos. 1 and 2 Cross Keys Cottages are of early to mid-19th century origin. No. 1 is largely constructed of painted brick, while the ground floor of No. 2 is also painted brick, with the first floor finished in alternating courses of plain and curved tiles. They have a tiled roof and two brick chimneystacks. The south-west front of No. 1 features a single 12-paned sash window and a gabled, weatherboarded porch with a side light, bargeboard and finial. The north-west front has a gabled dormer with bargeboards and three windows, including one 12-paned sash and two 20th-century casements. Dormers are cambered on No. 1, and No. 2 has a gabled weather porch with a bargeboard and finial.