7-554: The Cross Keys Inn is a pub-restaurant and former coaching inn, trading since before 1750, on a corner of Midford Road in Odd Down , Bath, Somerset , England. It is a Grade II listed building. The current building was erected in the late 17th or early 18th century. The site was owned by Bath Priory until the Dissolution of the Monasteries . It was then owned by Hugh Sexey . An inn
14-517: Is a Grade II listed building which was built in the late 17th or early 18th century. although an earlier pub on the site served as a coaching inn . Thomas Stride operated a brewery and public house in Odd Down and represented Combe Hay in the Rural District Council. Odd Down A.F.C. is the local football club which won the 2015-16 Western Premier League. Odd Down Playing fields has
21-429: Is known to have stood on the site in 1718 when it is described in a document as "a new erected tenement or dwelling house...now a Public House on Odwood Down". At that time, the lease cost forty-two pounds and there was an annual rent charge of one pound ten shillings. In the mid 18th century the lease was held by Ralph Allen who was the postmaster of Bath and made a fortune by reforming the postal delivery system. The inn
28-538: Is now a free house and restaurant. The building has late seventeenth century or early eighteenth century origins, and was extensively modified in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was built out of squared off rubble stone and has a roof of Roman style tiles. Originally the building was a single room deep with two gable ends and a stair at the centre of the rear wall. It had coped front and end gables, with cross saddle-stones, and an ashlar chimney stack at each end. Since then, right and left wings have been added to
35-596: The City of Bath , England. A suburb of the city, Odd Down is located west and south of the city centre. The city ward population taken at the 2011 census was 5,681. A 1,330 yards (1,220 m) section of the Wansdyke medieval earthwork in Odd Down, which has been designated as an Ancient monument , appears on the Heritage at Risk Register as being in unsatisfactory condition and vulnerable due to gardening. The Cross Keys Inn
42-422: The building at the rear and an ashlar extension with entrance added at the front. The building consists of three storeys and a cellar, the front extension is two storeys high and has a flat roof. There is a central tall chimney stack at the front, between the two gable ends. The interior of the building is reported to have an original staircase and fireplace. Odd Down Odd Down is an electoral ward in
49-416: Was situated strategically on a crossroads, with major roads going to Bristol , Warminster , Bath and Wells . It served as a coaching inn . The front of the building was altered in the 19th century. Sexey's Hospital was the owner until 1896 when it was sold to Oakhill Brewery . It remained under the control of breweries or pub management companies until 2014, when the freehold was purchased privately. It
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