The Old Cross Keys is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. Doctors' surgery, former inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Cross Keys
- WRENN ID
- worn-brass-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- Doctors' surgery, former inn
- Address
- The Old Cross Keys, 60, High Street, Princes Risborough, HP27 0AX
- OS grid reference
- SP 808 034
- Coordinates
- 51.72396, -0.83138
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cross Keys is a doctors' surgery that was formerly an inn, dating from the late 18th century and incorporating traces of 17th-century structure. It has been altered in the 20th century. The building is constructed of vitreous header brick with red brick quoins and window surrounds. The left bays also feature red brick walls below the ground floor sill level. It has offset eaves and old tile roofs, standing two storeys high with five bays. The right bay has taller storeys, a shallower hipped roof, and leaded cross casements, with the ground floor window featuring three lights and a segmental head. Each of the four bays to the left has a three-light leaded casement on the first floor and one in the centre of the ground floor, all with segmental heads. The ground floor left window has been altered to contain a single light and a 20th-century door. The fourth bay features a segmental arch that was formerly over a carriage entry, now fitted with 20th-century doors and an early 20th-century arched wooden screen. Inside, the central ground floor room has a good stop-chamfered spine beam.
Local climate
The Old Cross Keys sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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