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

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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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