Cross Keys is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2001. Inn. 1 related planning application.
Cross Keys
- WRENN ID
- worn-joist-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2001
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Cross Keys, Llandderfel, Bala, LL23 7HP
- OS grid reference
- SH 982 370
- Coordinates
- 52.92132, -3.51529
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Cross Keys is a two-and-a-half storey former inn, constructed of whitened rubble with a slate roof. It features end chimneys, with the right-hand chimney (facing Church Street) being gabled and projecting, topped with slate capping and later flaunching. The entrance originally served the left-hand unit, while the primary entrance on the right-hand side was blocked up in the early 19th century, although its lintel remains visible externally. The entrance has a boarded door, and there are single windows flanking it on each floor. The ground and first floors have recessed 9-pane (horned) sash windows, while the second floor features 6-pane sashes set within catslide dormers, some of which include bullseye panes. Above the first-floor window on the left-hand section, two 19th-century S-shaped tie plates are visible.
Inside, there are two rooms on each floor, characterized by plain beamed ceilings and fireplaces with slatestone lintels. The ground-floor parlour has an early 19th-century boarded door with an elliptical glazed panel. The second floor boasts primary oak floorboards and rough-chamfered purlins.
Local climate
Cross Keys sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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