The Royal Oak is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Royal Oak
- WRENN ID
- western-flint-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Royal Oak, 41, Front Street, Staindrop, DL2 3NB
- OS grid reference
- NZ 130 206
- Coordinates
- 54.58067, -1.79998
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Oak is an early 19th-century public house. It is constructed of painted rough render with ashlar and wood dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and rendered brick chimneys. The building is three storeys high and has three bays. The central entrance features a renewed boarded door and overlight, set within a doorcase of pilasters and a scroll-bracketed cornice; wood architraves frame the late 19th-century sash windows, which have projecting stone sills. The Welsh slate roof is punctuated by end chimneys.
Local climate
The Royal Oak receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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