CROSS KEYS INN

CROSS KEYS INN, 136, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1022705
Date first listed:: 17-Jan-1955
List Entry Name:: CROSS KEYS INN
Statutory Address:: CROSS KEYS INN, 136, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2007-11-01
Reference:: IOE01/17034/05
Rights:: © Tim Belcher. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1022705
Date first listed:: 17-Jan-1955
List Entry Name:: CROSS KEYS INN
Statutory Address 1:: CROSS KEYS INN, 136, HIGH STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CROSS KEYS INN, 136, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Royal Wootton Bassett
National Grid Reference:: SU 06768 82573

Details

SU 08 SE WOOTTON BASSETT HIGH STREET (south east side)

11/147 No 136 (Cross Keys Inn) 17.1.55

GV II

Hostelry, now public house and dwelling. 1742 on datestone, but possibly earlier. Brick, stone slate roof. Left gable stack and stone stack to rear right. 2 storey, 3 structural bays, with central carriage entrance and flanking public rooms. Entrance from carriageway. Part stone wing of 2 bays to left, extended C19 as forge. Elevation 5 bays, dark brick with finer red brick dressings to openings. Plat band and short aprons. 3-centred arch to carriageway with fielded and panelled doors. Gauged brick arches to windows, all with projecting keystones. Ground floor C19 4-pane sashes, and to right, C19 canted bay. One window altered. First floor 16-pane sashes. Brick dentilled eaves. Internally chamfered spine beams with checked swept stops. Site of C17 token issuer, John Knighton, Mercer.

Listing NGR: SU0676882573

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Legacy System number:: 316828
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.