Listed Building: CROSS KEYS HOTEL (1256462)

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Grade II
NHLE 1256462
Date assigned 24 June 1983
Date last amended

Description

YORK SE5849NE TADCASTER ROAD, Dringhouses 1112-1/26/1213 (West side) 24/06/83 No.32 Cross Keys Hotel GV II Hotel. Early C18 with alterations in late C18 and 1900. Brick in Flemish bond. Roof pantiled above eaves courses of plain tiles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics and 3 bays. The outer bays have 2-storey canted bay windows with glazing bar sashes on brick bases and with flat roofs above cornices. At 1st floor level in the centre there is a blocked window opening with elliptical arch, with a smaller glazing bar sash window within the blocking. The attic dormers are plain tiled and have moulded pedimented gables and glazing bar sashes. In the centre on the ground floor there is a wide carriageway with an elliptical arch, now blocked, but containing narrow windows with glazing bars to each side of an added porch. This porch has a pediment on console brackets, and a door architrave. To the left of the blocked carriageway there is evidence of further rebuilding, including part of a brick band. The left-hand return wall, facing south towards St Helen's Road, has two 2-storey canted bay windows similar to those to the front elevation. The roof above is half-hipped, with a gable above a wide dormer which has casements with glazing bars. INTERIOR: not inspected. RCHM records original staircase with turned balusters with knops, square newels and moulded handrail. An inn has existed on this site since c1250. (RCHME: City of York: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 117). Listing NGR: SE5874049741

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Grid reference SE 5873 4974 (point) (2 map features)
Map sheet SE54NE

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Nov 30 2021 9:27PM

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