The Cross Keys Public House

The Cross Keys Public House is a late 18th-century building with earlier origins, incorporating a 15th-century undercroft. It has 19th-century extensions and early 20th-century alterations. The ground floor is faced in red brick laid in Flemish bond, with raised brick quoins above an ashlar basement. The first floor is roughcast and whitewashed, while the left side is rendered and whitewashed. The building features a coped gable with rounded kneelers on a pantile roof, and brick stacks at each end, with the left stack extruded and another in the center.

The front is two stories high with four windows above a tall basement. There is a cellar opening with a hinged grille at the right end of the basement. The round-arched entrance has a flight of steps leading to panelled double doors. On each side of the doorway are recessed shallow three-light bow windows with square-lattice casements beneath segmental arches, and at the right end, there is a similar five-light window. The first-floor windows are 12-pane sashes with vestigial plain surrounds and painted stone sills. The building has iron-clamped guttering.

Inside, the medieval undercroft forms the cellar beneath the right end of the building. It features three narrow bays of single-chamfered rib-vaulting on corbels with bosses, and two-centred arches on the north side that are now blocked. Later openings in the blocked east and west walls have keyed lintels. The undercroft is the only surviving remnant of the medieval Hospital of St Peter, likely founded by the Gilbertine Priory of St Mary in the 12th century.