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Picture source: Hania Franek

The Cross Keys was situated at 15-16 High Street. The grade-II* listed building dates from 1575. Originally called The Globe the name changed to the Cross Keys c1820. The building is now in retail use, currently a coffee shop.

Listed building details:

Formerly known as: Cross Keys Inn. Inn, now shop. Timber-framed with plain tiled roof. Dated 1575. 2 storeys, 2-window range with inserted late C20 shop front to ground floor. Right-hand bay projects, perhaps as former full-height porch. Jettied with moulded bressumer, close studding with middle rail and herringbone studding in side walls. 4-pane sash window inserted at first floor. Left-hand section also formerly jettied, with moulded bressumer, and square panelling with twisted shafts superimposed on vertical members and sunk quatrefoils in the horizontal. Inserted 4-pane sash window. Some panel infill renewed in brick and painted over. Single segmentally-arched dormer window in roof. Return elevation to Grope Lane framed and decorated in similar manner with wide gable over shop front, with 6-pane sash window, and renewed plaque bearing date, 1575. Lower jettied central range with close studding links this gable with a narrower upper gable, with 5-light mullioned and transomed window and projecting casement in gable apex. Beyond this a further 2 bays, the ground floor renewed, but moulded bressumer to jettied upper storey, with close studding. Mullioned and transomed windows of 2 and 4 lights are late C19 insertions. Loading door and hoist in gabled dormer.

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Picture source: Hania Franek