Cross Keys Hotel
CROSS KEYS HOTEL, 32, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196188
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Cross Keys Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- CROSS KEYS HOTEL, 32, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1196188
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Cross Keys Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROSS KEYS HOTEL, 32, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CROSS KEYS HOTEL, 32, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Saffron Walden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 53733 38455
Details
SAFFRON WALDEN
TL5338 HIGH STREET 669-1/1/196 (East side) 28/11/51 No.32 Cross Keys Hotel
GV II*
Former house and shop, now public house. C15, C16 and early C19. Timber-framed, part rendered and parts with original framing exposed. Low pitched slate roof, hipped on SW corner with small gablet. 2 storeys. L plan. Front to High Street is of 2 parts, all with rendering raised above original exposed timber-framed facades. The N part has exposed jetty with 2 brackets and C19 leaded light oriels, on ground and first floors. The S corner block has frieze window of traceried lights (largely a restoration) with panel of original, thin, plank-like chevron bracing. Beneath the exposed jetty are 2 original shop windows and early C20 door opening. The S flank of corner block is jettied (dragon post on corner) with curved arch braces, 2 further drop windows and series of cinquefoil-headed paired windows. A block to the rear, E, is rendered with jetty and 2 exposed brackets and has four 16 paned double hung sashes on the first floor. The ground floor has a 16 paned similar window and 2 paired 12 paned double-hung sashes, a door and a 16 paned casement. Tall C19 stack over E gable end and truncated stack on ridge line, near W end of roof. The SW corner block is a former shop with original entrance from King Street. The N flank originally contained a `high-end-recess' for former hall bench. The adjoining block to N was an early C16 parlour, open framed to shop and with moulded (recessed ogees), bridging joist and girts. The later S flank wall is of C16 panelling with frieze of fluting, 4 consoles and inserted marquetry panel with arch, date 1569 and initials W.A. The rear wall had a post where mouldings are interrupted by leaf stops framing a contemporary rear stack (now much altered). The front ground floor wall of this block originally contained a door opening (to N) and a very wide oriel taking up the rest of the facade. The S wall on the first floor is thought to have similar panelling. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Ratcliffe E: Essex: London: 1965-: 335; Vernacular Architecture: Stenning DF: Timber Framed Shops, 1300-1600: Comparative plans:16: 1985-: 35-39; Stacey HC: Saffron Walden in Old Photographs: Saffron Walden: 1980-: FIG.45,46).
Listing NGR: TL5373338455
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 370581
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Essex, (1965), 335
Stacey, HC, Saffron Walden in Old Photographs, (1980)
Vernacular Architecture in Vernacular Architecture, (1985), 35-39
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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