Cross Keys Inn, Northgate, Peebles

The Cross Keys Inn is a later 17th-century hotel, with subsequent smaller alterations and additions, forming a roughly Z-shaped plan around Northgate, completed by number 26. The exterior is white-painted harl and render with black-painted ashlar margins.

The west elevation has three bays. The left bay features a ground-floor window, a corbelled bipartite window on the first floor, and an eaves-breaking window with a gabled dormerhead at the second floor. The right bays project with a catslide roof. A modern, pedimented porch and door are centered, with a 1693 datestone above (likely a former dormerhead). A ground-floor window sits to the left, with two first-floor windows, and a small box dormer to the left. To the left of this is a small, two-storey, two-bay range, partially obscured, with a ground-floor door and windows above. Projecting wings extend to the south (single and three-storey) and north (single-storey), with gable ends featuring corbel skewputts, skews and finials (missing to the north). There are three windows to the south, and a bowed shop front to the north (number 26). A further two-storey, single-bay, piend-roofed range is painted and features ashlar framing and a cornice; it features a large tripartite shop window at ground level and a large single window at first floor.

The south elevation (north range) displays a pair of bowed shop windows to the left, and recessed doors leading to the hotel in the re-entrant angle to the right.

The north elevation (south range) shows a three-storey, single bay to the left with three windows at ground level, one at first floor, and one at second floor, breaking the eaves with a gabled dormerhead and finial. To the right is a single-storey range with a piend-roofed, canted window and door.

The rear (east) elevation is three-storeys high, with a slightly advanced two-bay gable to the left. A projecting range to the right (two-storeys high, due to the lie of the land) has a gable end and steps leading to a full-height canted bay with a crenellated parapet. The return is two bays to the east. At the center, a flat-roofed extension projects to the left, with a door to the right and a first-floor window. Second-floor windows break the eaves with swept dormerheads. A corbelled turret is situated in the re-entrant angle. A single-storey, single-bay range extends to the far right, adjoining a rubble barn.

The windows are mostly 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered in grey slates, with initials "W W" and some decoration discernible to the east, and terracotta ridge tiles to the main block. Coped skews and corbel skewputts are present, alongside coped rendered stacks.

The interior was not inspected in 1994.