The Cross Keys Public House
THE CROSS KEYS PUBLIC HOUSE, 47, WHEELGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202741
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Cross Keys Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE CROSS KEYS PUBLIC HOUSE, 47, WHEELGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202741
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Cross Keys Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CROSS KEYS PUBLIC HOUSE, 47, WHEELGATE
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:
- THE CROSS KEYS PUBLIC HOUSE, 47, WHEELGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Malton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 78649 71818
Details
MALTON
SE780715 WHEELGATE 801-1/8/156 (West side) 29/09/51 No.47 The Cross Keys PH
GV II*
Public house. Late C18, with earlier origins, and incorporating C15 undercroft; C19 extensions and early C20 alterations. Ground floor refaced in red brick in Flemish bond, with raised quoins of brick, over ashlar basement; first floor roughcast and whitewashed; left side rendered and whitewashed. Coped gable and rounded kneelers to pantile roof; brick stacks at each end, left one extruded, and in centre. 2-storey 4-window front on tall basement. Cellar opening with hinged grille at right end of basement. Round-arched entrance contains flight of steps leading to panelled double doors. On each side of doorway are recessed shallow 3-light bow windows with square-lattice casements beneath segmental arches; at right end similar 5-light window. First-floor windows are 12-pane sashes in vestigial plain surrounds with painted stone sills. Iron-clamped guttering. INTERIOR: medieval undercroft now forms cellar beneath right end of building. 3 narrow bays of single-chamfered rib-vaulting on corbels with bosses. 2-centred arches on north side now blocked. Later openings in blocked east and west walls have keyed lintels. Undercroft is the sole surviving relic of the medieval Hospital of St Peter, probably founded by the Gilbertine Priory of St Mary, in C12. (Hudleston N A: History of Malton and Norton: Scarborough: 1962-: OPP. P.72).
Listing NGR: SE7864971818
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389582
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hudleston, N A, History of Malton and Norton North Yorkshire, (1962), 72
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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