Building record TQ 55 SW 433 - Old Cross Keys, Ashgrove Road, Sevenoaks

A two-storey house built on ground floor of ragstone with red brick surrounds to doors and windows, under decorative hung tiles at first floor and a pitched tile roof, with one white-painted weather board gable with bargeboards, slightly projected. Two handsome chimneys, ornately detailed. The timber-framed windows have side-hung and fixed metal or leaded lights, and decorative stops. The property is on the first OS map for Sevenoaks of 1868 with the same outline as it possesses today so it was definitely built before 1868 and parts of it may date back to 1650. Given that is is called Old Cross Keys, one could speculate that it was part of the old Cross Keys farm (17th/18th century). From the 1868 OS map. it would seem originally to have been two semi-detached cottages now one detached property. (1)

<1> Sevenoaks District Council, Sevenoaks District Council Local List of Heritage Assets (Index). SKE53505.