CROSS KEYS PUBLIC HOUSE AND RAISED FORECOURT

CROSS KEYS PUBLIC HOUSE AND RAISED FORECOURT, 2, DUKE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376206
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: CROSS KEYS PUBLIC HOUSE AND RAISED FORECOURT
Statutory Address:: CROSS KEYS PUBLIC HOUSE AND RAISED FORECOURT, 2, DUKE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376206
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-1998
List Entry Name:: CROSS KEYS PUBLIC HOUSE AND RAISED FORECOURT
Statutory Address 1:: CROSS KEYS PUBLIC HOUSE AND RAISED FORECOURT, 2, DUKE 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 PUBLIC HOUSE AND RAISED FORECOURT, 2, DUKE STREET

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District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 40672 65882

Details

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4065NE DUKE STREET 595-1/6/146 (South side) No.2 Cross Keys Public House and raised forecourt

GV II

Public house. Rebuilt 1894 by WM Boden and raised forecourt, probably earlier. Stone-dressed red Ruabon brick, pebbledash, grey slates and red sandstone squared snecked rubble. Free style. EXTERIOR: beer cellar and 3 storeys. The front to Duke Street has round-arched recessed porch at west corner with Bridge Place, having columns with foliar caps in C13 manner, crossed keys incised in spandrel and stone-banded corner buttress; porch floor of tiles and mosaic; part-glazed oak door, panelled in C17 manner; two 3-light mullioned and transomed windows, leaded above transoms; a blocked doorway, part-glazed; a 2-light casement and a 4-panel door with overlight in east wing; stone lintels and segmental brick arches. The second storey of the main block has a moulded stone jetty with carved end-consoles; pebbledash; a shallow canted oriel of 4 lights with 2 transoms and a cross-casement with frame proud of wall-face. The east wing has a cross-window. The third storey has a moulded stone jetty between stone-banded projections, a 4-light casement, a pilaster and a 2-light casement, each under a dormer gable with moulded bargeboard; the east wing has a pair of cross-casements under a timber-framed dormer gable. A red brick ridge chimney. The west face to Bridge Place has floor-bands, banded quoins, window surrounds, mullions and transoms of yellow stone. The first storey has a 1-light transomed window to each side of a leaded cross-window in the gable-end of the main block, a half-bay window against the south return of the gable-end and a pair of cross-casements with brick mullions and stone transoms in the south wing. The second storey has a slightly jettied floorband and a 5-light leaded casement in the gable-end and a timber cross-casement in the south wing. The third storey has a flush floor-band and a 4-light mullioned casement in the gable and a hipped 2-light dormer in the roof of the south wing. A ridge chimney and a south gable chimney. The forecourt to Bridge Place has west and south walls of squared snecked red sandstone rubble, double boarded doors to the beer cellar in an opening with segmental arch, looking

older than the public house. One step up to blue brick pavement of the forecourt. INTERIOR: altered, but retaining some of its original features. The building is prominently sited on a street corner and makes a positive contribution in townscape terms. (Improvement Committee Minutes: Chester City Council: 27/2/1894: 1894-).

Listing NGR: SJ4067265882

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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.