The Cross Keys Inn

The Cross Keys Inn is an inn featuring elements from the 17th century. It is constructed of stone, rendered in roughcast and painted, with a slate roof that has rendered end stacks and corniced chimneys; the right chimney is brick, while the left is roughcast. The building has two storeys and a cellar. The front has a three-window range of 4-pane horned sashes on the first floor. The ground floor includes bar casement windows with diamond leaded quarries, and a small rectangular light next to the central doorway, which has a 20th-century gabled hood and a boarded door. There are shutters and a plinth, as well as former mounting steps at the right end. At the rear, there are mullioned first-floor windows with 2 and 4 lights, and a lower cross wing featuring 6-pane sashes.

Inside the right bar area, there is one large cross beam and joists that are not chamfered, along with an open fireplace that has an unusual wooden mantelpiece decorated with recessed round arches and a suggestion of a Tudor arch, which is reputedly from a Tudor door-case. Stairs rise beside the fireplace through an arched doorway with a studded boarded door. The beam in front of the fireplace has empty mortices. The left bar area has a grid of spine beams and joists. On the first floor, there are reported remains of a moulded plaster ceiling featuring cherubs and Tudor roses, possibly created by craftsmen who worked at the nearby Castle and Gatehouse, along with spiral stairs leading to the attic.