Cross Hands Hotel

The Cross Hands Hotel is a Tudor-Gothic style public house, dating from the 18th century, with later additions. It has an L-shaped layout, featuring asymmetrical west and north ranges, a splayed corner bay, and rear extensions including a former walled yard. The main elevations are constructed of rubble stone with freestone dressings. The slate roof has bracketed eaves and stone ridge stacks – two to the west range and one to the north range – with a hipped end to the south of the west range. Mullioned windows feature round-headed lights.

The west range, facing the A485, has four bays, with a single bay added to the south end. The doorway is offset to the right of the centre and has a cambered head with dressed voussoirs and a keystone, now having replaced doors. The windows on the west range are 2-light, 4-light, and 5-light in the lower storey; the 5-light window has sunk spandrels. The upper storey windows are 2-light in the middle bays and 3-light in the outer bays. Original quoins mark the end of the original building and the adjoining coach house, which has a wide camber-headed doorway with a replaced door and a 2-light window above.

The original main entrance is located in the splayed northwest corner bay, built of coursed dressed stone. It has a cambered doorway with a keystone and a replaced door, the original having been double studded doors with strap hinges and an overlight (replaced since the survey). Above this doorway is a keyed and pointed window with small-pane intersecting glazing bars. The north range, which includes an integral dwelling, has a single bay on the right side, similar in style to the west range and featuring a 2-light lower storey window and a 3-light upper storey window. Further to the left, the house has three windows with openings offset to the right, with keyed cambered stone heads and pivoting windows. The central doorway has a replaced door.

At the rear, the main range has 6-pane upper-storey sash windows in brick surrounds, above single-storey projections extending to the original stone boundary wall of the yard. A later coach house, at the southwest corner, abuts a formerly detached three-window rear wing constructed of rubble stone, with brick dressings and a slate roof. The interior has been altered.