Possible medieval origin & site of court of Welsh princes. Rebuilt in C15 by Mostyn family who held manorial courts there. Until 1672 it was meeting place of courts of Great Sessions, then used as Judges' Lodgings for Assize Court. Remained a magistrate's court until 1869 when a new Sessions House built in Water Street. Subsequently converted & shown on 1871 and 1899 Ordnance Surveys as the Cross Foxes Public House. Present building is early C17 origin, encompassing main 2-unit range with rear stair projection & rear wing, with later W wing, & projection at the rear of the N wing. Front fenestration altered in the early C19, later remodelled with roughcast & barge boards when converted to public house.

Large 2?-storey house, original core being a main range facing the street, with gabled stair projection behind & rear wing to left, forming L-shaped plan, with added parallel wing to the left side of the front and projection behind the rear wing housing the court room, forming an approximate T-shaped plan.
Main range has late C19 front of roughcast walls, channelled in lower storey & scribed above with rusticated quoins, slate roof with rendered C17 stack R of centre and a C19 end stack, with rear wing brick end stack. Ground floor has entrance to centre-R, with porch on timber posts and replaced door. Ground-floor windows are late C19 metal frames with thin glazing bars, in earlier openings, and have rusticated lintels with heads to the keystones.
Upper storey has sill band on a frieze of small consoles, incorporating five 4-pane horned sash windows below a corbelled eaves band. Three gabled dormers have similar windows under head mouldings, while the gables project on consoles and have fretted barge boards and pendant finials. The R gable end has similar barge boards and finial, and bands continuous with the front sill and eaves bands.

To L is a lower 2-storey wing, with similar roughcast front to the main range.Windows similar to the main range, with upper storey ones carried above the eaves under gablets. L gable end has segmental-headed first-floor doorway, rear has 2 inserted pairs of French doors & wood-framed casement carried above the eaves. W wall of N wing has 2-light mullioned windows with hood moulds.

Rear of the main range has triple, horizontal-sliding sash window in the lower storey, R of which is the stair projection, with segmental-headed boarded door in its E wall, 3-light mullioned window with hood mould in the lower storey in N wall & horizontal-sliding sash window to the upper landing. Middle landing has a 3-light small-pane window with wooden mullions (stone mullions retained on the inside).

N wing has 2-light mullioned upper-storey window, with triple horizontal-sliding sash window & replaced door under a segmental head to the ground floor. Single attic window in dressed stone surround to gable end, with similar to first floor, both with weathered hood moulds. N projection is C19 but has altered details such as inserted garage doors in E wall, with brick lean-to to L and segmental-headed 2-light casement to R. Upper storey has 2 inserted windows below the eaves. N gable end has external stone steps, treads renewed in concrete, to a C20 boarded door. NE angle has voussoirs of a stone arch to a projection further N, while NW angle is attached to a separate property.

Interior has lobby-entry plan with central back-to-back fireplaces to the principal rooms, with unusual tunnel-vaulted passage beneath the combined chimney leading to rear stair projection. Room L of entrance has timber lintel to the fireplace and 2 cross beams, with cross beam in R-hand room having ogee stop. C17 full-height open-well stair has turned balusters and newels.
Attic has 4-bay roof, trusses with tie and collar beams formerly hold partitions, openings through which have shallow triangular heads. Stone fireplace with a rough shelf above it. N wing attic also has fireplace now blocked.
(Source; Cadw listing database)