Crosskeys Inn, 40 Grange Road, Ardnaglass, Toomebridge, Co. Antrim, BT41 3QB

An L-shaped building with thatched roof between tiled gables and with a plastered and whitened wall finish that includes a black base at the front and at the south-east side. The ridge is of the wrap-over variety and the eaves are square cut. The entrance elevation faces north-east overlooking a forecourt and a secondary road that leads from Randalstown to Portglenone about six miles from the former town. Timber diagonally sheeted centre hinged double doors are flanked to the left (south-east) by a fixed 3x3 timber window that retains the post office facility in the bottom left hand corner and to the right by a 8/8 timber vertically sliding sashed window with moulded sash stops. The widows are without sills. That to the left of the entrance has a timber shutter inscribed with the Crosskeys symbol painted onto the inner face and the shutter serving the right hand window is plain. A board above the entrance is painted with the name of the establishment. The arm of the T that extends at right angles to the north-west has a 10/10 vertically sliding sashed window with moulded sash stops and without a sill. There is no shutter. From the extremity of this elevation a low whitened wall with timber gate and rectangular pillar encloses a sunken area that gives access to the basement, now closed, by means of six stone steps. A window of reduced size in the gable of this block has a 6/6 timber vertically sliding window at high level with moulded sash stops and without a sill. The gable of this block rises to a corbelled chimneystack and there is s a similar stack over the position of the lounge fireplace in the main block. The gable of the main block is without openings but there remains a small sentry box in the form of an Irish gate pillar at the front (south-east), a remnant of the troubles. Moving to the rear and starting from the south-west corner there is an 8/8 timber sliding sash window with moulded sash stops and sill of traditional depth. An extension of the lounge now projects under an extension of the thatched roof between tiled parapets. It is entered by a timber ledged, braced and sheeted door on the south-east side and is lighted by a 4/4 timber vertically sliding window on the outer (south-east) side with moulded sash stops and no sill. Beyond this there is an horizontal 4/4 vertically sliding window with moulded sash stops and no sill before coming to a lean-to store with a profiled metal roof covering and a timber door made up of four horizontal panels. The windows on the north–west side are inaccessible from the outside. A random rubble wall extends from the north-west corner of the public house along Grange Road to a bridge over the stream. It is built without a coping and is contemporary with the main building.