44, Foregate Street

44 Foregate Street is a former town house that later became a public house known as The Royal Oak, and is now a shop. It was originally built in 1601 and largely rebuilt in a similar style in 1920 by F Davies. The building features a timber frame with plaster panels and a grey slate roof, with the rear likely constructed of brick.

On the exterior, the ground floor has four stanchions that are clad to resemble posts, and there is a late 20th-century shopfront. The intermediate posts are supported by quadrant brackets that carry a bressumer. The first floor displays three rows of small-frame panels, with the top row featuring quatrefoil braces. The left and center bays each have a canted five-light oriel window on quadrant brackets, while the right bay has a mullioned and transomed three-light casement window with a pargeted sign that reads "YE OLDE ROYAL OAK HOTEL."

The second floor has jettied left and central bays under a gable, while the right bay is flush. It features two rows of quadrant-braced panels on the two jettied bays and one row on the third bay, along with two three-light canted oriels and a four-light casement window. All upper storey windows are leaded, with patterned glass on the first floor. The broad jettied front gable has decorated lozenge panels above a pargeted frieze, along with bargeboards and a finial. The jetty beam is inscribed "1601 AD : REBUILT 1920 AD." There is a chimney on the right and another behind the ridge of the front gable. The exposed left end has a modern shop window, while the close-studded first and second floors remain unpierced. The interior of the ground floor has had all features removed or covered.