Description

YORK

SE6052SW GOODRAMGATE
1112-1/27/400 (West side)
No.34
The Cross Keys and attached yard
gateway and wall

GV II

Public house. Dated 1904. By Frank Raney of Stonegate. For CJ
Melrose and Co.
MATERIALS: orange brick in English garden-wall and stretcher
bonds; inn front to Goodramgate of faience; faience dressings;
Deangate front has planted timber-framing with plaster infill
on first floor: brick coping and kneelers, and brick cornice
stacks to tiled roofs. Yard wall and gateway of orange brick
in English garden-wall bond with stone dressings and timber
gates. Wedge shaped on plan with angled corner bays.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey fronts, 5 bays to Goodramgate, 3 bays to
Deangate, and 2 bays at the junction.
Goodramgate front: bays arranged 2:1:2, with gabled centre
bay. Inn front has moulded plinth and moulded capping at
impost level. Central glazed and panelled double doors beneath
overlight flanked by tripartite windows with transoms and
frosted glazing etched with bar names and crossed key motifs.
Windows framed in pilasters with voluted heads beneath heavy
pulvinated friezes, dentilled cornices and scrolled pediments.
Door has similar frieze and cornice on moulded consoles. First
floor windows are hung sashes with 8-pane top lights, 1-pane
lower lights and brick cambered arches. Central gable has
moulded kneelers, relief mouldings of crossed keys in foliate
cartouche and date 1904 beneath flat hoodmould, all of
faience. Windows on both floors have moulded faience sills,
those on first floor extended in brick on each side to form
sill band, and continued at right end across first corner bay.
Coved eaves cornice returns across both corner bays.
Deangate front: outer bays are gabled with plain bargeboards.
Centre bay has panelled door with glazed oculus and divided
overlight, and sash window to left; right bay has two similar
windows, left bay a tripartite window with centre sash between
narrow side lights. Windows all have 8-pane upper sashes and
lower sashes of etched frosted glass; all have brick cambered
arches and sills of moulded faience. On first floor, windows
are mullioned and transomed with casements, square latticed
top-hung lights and shaped timber sills. Corner bay to
Goodramgate has one sash window on each floor, ground floor
one with etched frosted glass. Second corner bay has
corbelled-out stack which rises through cornice and base of
roof pitch.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: yard wall is approximately 1.75 metres
high with moulded stone coping, rising to piers with moulded

cornices and ball finials. Gates are 2-leaved with segmental
head, on long bifurcated strap hinges.
Inn was rebuilt in place of an earlier one on the same site
with the creation of Deangate in 1903.

Listing NGR: SE6046652134

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549063

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