Cross Keys Hotel
CROSS KEYS HOTEL, CAUTLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384097
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Cross Keys Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- CROSS KEYS HOTEL, CAUTLEY ROAD
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- Date:
- 2004-08-20
- Reference:
- IOE01/12879/10
- Rights:
- © Mr David Cross. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384097
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Cross Keys Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROSS KEYS HOTEL, CAUTLEY ROAD
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, CAUTLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sedbergh
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 69787 96879
Details
SEDBERGH
SD69NE CAUTLEY ROAD
162-1/2/289 (West side)
14/06/84 Cross Keys Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
CAUTLEY ROAD
Cross Keys Hotel and barn to east)
GV II
Farmhouse or inn, now hotel. Dated 1732 on lintel of doorway
but probably earlier than this; altered in C19 and early C20,
with extension added to rear. Whitewashed rubble with quoins,
graduated slate roof. Single-depth 2-bay plan on north-south
axis with added shippon at north end subsequently integrated
with house and entrance into this forming a "hearth-passage
plan", with rear outshut to centre and added outshut to
northern bay embracing this; parlour at south end extended in
early C20.
EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys with 5 irregularly-disposed windows.
The doorway to the 3rd bay (abutting the junction with the
centre bay) has a monolith lintel with raised lettering "17/ H
/ A / 32". The centre bay has a blocked 2-light mullioned
window to the left, a 4-pane hornless sashed window, and a
round-headed 1-light fire-window to the right with hollow
spandrels; and, at 1st floor two small formerly 2-light
mullioned windows now lacking the mullions. The 1st (south)
bay has a small chamfered 1-light window to the left and a
9-pane sash to the right at ground floor, and a pair of large
late C19 or early C20 half-dormers in Jacobean style furnished
with 12-pane sashes. The 3rd (north) bay has a matching
half-dormer, and an iron inn sign bracket. Ridge chimney at
junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, square extruded chimney at left
gable corbelled from 1st floor. Right-hand gable wall has
(inter alia) a 2-light mullioned window at 1st floor with a
chamfered flush-mullion; extended outshut continues to rear.
Rear: sun lounge added to 1st bay.
INTERIOR: remodelled in early C20 by insertion of partition
wall at lower end of former housepart and southward extension
of parlour, leaving 2 chamfered lateral beams in centre bay
(that to north formerly a firehood bressumer) and a 3rd to
south of partition wall with mortices of former panelled
partition to formerly smaller parlour; spiral stone staircase
off rear of centre bay; at 1st floor, a muntin-and-plank
partition (over the beam now in the extended parlour), with
scratch-moulded muntins.
Forms group with barn approx. 25m north (qv).
Listing NGR: SD6978796879
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484529
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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