The Cross Keys is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1985. Former public house. 1 related planning application.
The Cross Keys
- WRENN ID
- heavy-outpost-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1985
- Type
- Former public house
- Address
- The Cross Keys, 18, Wycombe End, Beaconsfield, HP9 1NB
- OS grid reference
- SU 943 900
- Coordinates
- 51.60126, -0.63885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cross Keys is an 18th-century building located on the south side of Wycombe End in Beaconsfield. It is a two-storey building constructed of colourwashed brick, with a machine tile roof featuring two hips facing the street. The upper floor has two sash windows set under the eaves. A wrought iron bracket supports a hanging sign depicting the Cross Keys on the corner. The ground floor features an off-centre entrance beneath a gabled hood supported by brackets. To the left of the entrance is a sash window, and to the right is a modern plate glass shop window. The building was formerly the Cross Keys public house.
Local climate
The Cross Keys sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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