Pub history

The Cross Keys

This pub is situated in Northgate which, for centuries, was the main route north out of Peebles. It is the town’s oldest inn. The triangular plaque above the ‘modern pedimented porch’ bears the date 1693. In 1867, the L-shaped three-storey building was described as the Cross Keys Inn and ‘approached from the Northgate through an arch into a courtyard’.