Cross Keys Hotel

SEDBERGH

SD69NE CAUTLEY ROAD 162-1/2/289 (West side) 14/06/84 Cross Keys Hotel (Formerly Listed as: CAUTLEY ROAD Cross Keys Hotel and barn to east)

GV II

Farmhouse or inn, now hotel. Dated 1732 on lintel of doorway but probably earlier than this; altered in C19 and early C20, with extension added to rear. Whitewashed rubble with quoins, graduated slate roof. Single-depth 2-bay plan on north-south axis with added shippon at north end subsequently integrated with house and entrance into this forming a "hearth-passage plan", with rear outshut to centre and added outshut to northern bay embracing this; parlour at south end extended in early C20. EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys with 5 irregularly-disposed windows. The doorway to the 3rd bay (abutting the junction with the centre bay) has a monolith lintel with raised lettering "17/ H / A / 32". The centre bay has a blocked 2-light mullioned window to the left, a 4-pane hornless sashed window, and a round-headed 1-light fire-window to the right with hollow spandrels; and, at 1st floor two small formerly 2-light mullioned windows now lacking the mullions. The 1st (south) bay has a small chamfered 1-light window to the left and a 9-pane sash to the right at ground floor, and a pair of large late C19 or early C20 half-dormers in Jacobean style furnished with 12-pane sashes. The 3rd (north) bay has a matching half-dormer, and an iron inn sign bracket. Ridge chimney at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, square extruded chimney at left gable corbelled from 1st floor. Right-hand gable wall has (inter alia) a 2-light mullioned window at 1st floor with a chamfered flush-mullion; extended outshut continues to rear. Rear: sun lounge added to 1st bay. INTERIOR: remodelled in early C20 by insertion of partition wall at lower end of former housepart and southward extension of parlour, leaving 2 chamfered lateral beams in centre bay (that to north formerly a firehood bressumer) and a 3rd to south of partition wall with mortices of former panelled partition to formerly smaller parlour; spiral stone staircase off rear of centre bay; at 1st floor, a muntin-and-plank partition (over the beam now in the extended parlour), with scratch-moulded muntins. Forms group with barn approx. 25m north (qv).

Listing NGR: SD6978796879