Cross Keys Inn

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW CROSS KEYS LANE 844-1/8/102 (South side) 23/01/52 Cross Keys Inn

GV II

Public house. Early to mid C16 with C18 additions; C19 and C20 alterations. Stuccoed timber frame and brick additions painted white, plain tile roof, two brick stacks. A long, end-gabled range of five bays with a short, cross-gabled wing projecting from the central bay at the rear of the range flanked by outshut additions. EXTERIOR: originally two storeys and attic, but the two bays to left heightened in the C18 above the line of the original eaves by addition of third storey in brick built off the wall plates of the C16 frame; on front the ground floor rebuilt in brick under a continuous jetty supported by the exposed ends of the first-floor cross beams and joists, with a moulded board applied to the bressumer above. Entrance doorway to bar in centre and a second doorway to right with a fixed light window with glazing bars on left side of door frame under a common lintel; otherwise irregular C20 fenestration. On the first floor five C19 windows: two sashes with glazing bars to left, a three-light window in centre with central horned sash, a two-light window to right with a single sash and a fixed light and a two-light casement further right, all with glazing bars. On the second floor to left three C18 sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes); on the roof to right a central cat-slide roofed dormer and further right a segmental, copper roofed dormer, both with C20 casements. Projecting at eaves level in centre a C18 decorative wrought-iron bracket for the hanging inn sign board. INTERIOR: the ground floor of the main range now mostly opened as bar-room with cross beams supported by posts. On the first floor a stop-chamfered lateral beam exposed in one room, otherwise C20 linings. In two western bays of attic roof purlins and curved wind-braces. Cellar, walled in brick, retains several original C16 bridging beams.

Listing NGR: SO8309118516