The Cross Keys Public House

MALTON

SE780715 WHEELGATE 801-1/8/156 (West side) 29/09/51 No.47 The Cross Keys PH

GV II*

Public house. Late C18, with earlier origins, and incorporating C15 undercroft; C19 extensions and early C20 alterations. Ground floor refaced in red brick in Flemish bond, with raised quoins of brick, over ashlar basement; first floor roughcast and whitewashed; left side rendered and whitewashed. Coped gable and rounded kneelers to pantile roof; brick stacks at each end, left one extruded, and in centre. 2-storey 4-window front on tall basement. Cellar opening with hinged grille at right end of basement. Round-arched entrance contains flight of steps leading to panelled double doors. On each side of doorway are recessed shallow 3-light bow windows with square-lattice casements beneath segmental arches; at right end similar 5-light window. First-floor windows are 12-pane sashes in vestigial plain surrounds with painted stone sills. Iron-clamped guttering. INTERIOR: medieval undercroft now forms cellar beneath right end of building. 3 narrow bays of single-chamfered rib-vaulting on corbels with bosses. 2-centred arches on north side now blocked. Later openings in blocked east and west walls have keyed lintels. Undercroft is the sole surviving relic of the medieval Hospital of St Peter, probably founded by the Gilbertine Priory of St Mary, in C12. (Hudleston N A: History of Malton and Norton: Scarborough: 1962-: OPP. P.72).

Listing NGR: SE7864971818