Cross Keys Hotel

The Cross Keys Hotel, originally a farmhouse or inn, dates largely to 1732, though it is likely to be earlier, with alterations in the 19th and early 20th centuries and a rear extension added. It is constructed of whitewashed rubble with quoins, and has a graduated slate roof. The building has a single-depth, two-bay plan on a north-south axis, with an added shippon at the north end that was later incorporated into the house. This created a “hearth-passage plan”, with a rear outshut in the centre and an additional outshut embracing the northern bay; the parlour at the south end was extended in the early 20th century.

The exterior has two low storeys and five irregularly-placed windows. A monolith lintel above the doorway to the third bay bears the inscription "17/ H / A / 32". The centre bay features a blocked two-light mullioned window, a four-pane hornless sash window, and a round-headed one-light fire window to the right with hollow spandrels. Above are two small, formerly two-light mullioned windows lacking the mullions. The first (south) bay has a small chamfered one-light window and a nine-pane sash window at ground floor, alongside a pair of half-dormers in a late 19th or early 20th century Jacobean style, featuring twelve-pane sashes. A matching half-dormer is present on the third (north) bay, along with an iron inn sign bracket. A ridge chimney is situated at the junction of the second and third bays, and an extruded square chimney corbels from the first floor at the left gable. A gable wall includes a two-light mullioned window at first floor with a chamfered flush-mullion, with an extended outshut continuing to the rear.

The interior was remodelled in the early 20th century with the insertion of a partition wall at the lower end of the former house and a southward extension of the parlour. Remaining features include two chamfered lateral beams in the centre bay – the northern one formerly a firehood bressumer – and a third beam to the south of the partition wall, with mortices indicating a former panelled partition to a smaller parlour. A spiral stone staircase is off the rear of the centre bay. At first floor, a muntin-and-plank partition sits above the beam in the extended parlour, with scratch-moulded muntins. The building forms a group with a barn approximately 25 metres to the north.