Royal Oak Public House

SJ 79 NE, 1481-/4/10000

ECCLES, BARTON LANE (north-west side), Royal Oak PH

II

Public house. Dated 1904 on right-hand corner; by Mr Newton of Hartley, Hacking & Co., slightly altered. Red brick with buff terracotta dressings, slate roof hipped to the right. Trapeziform plan on corner site. Edwardian baroque style. Two storeys over cellars, five windows and a splayed corner to right from which chimney rises. Terracotta modillioned cornice, and a brick parapet. The third bay has an entrance with a terracotta architrave and a segmental pediment. Sash windows with terracotta architraves, two ground floor windows to left have elliptical arched heads. Splayed corner has broad decorated terracotta band between floors and at first floor a plaque lettered 'Royal Oak/Hotel' and the date 1904. Long right hand return side with six windows in similar style, entrance to outdoor department in second bay and another entrance in third bay with round headed doorway. A wide end bay has tripartite windows at first floor beneath a segmental terracotta pediment. Attached wall, gate piers with terracotta finials; a small stable block in yard.

INTERIORS: Entrance lobby with door to vault to right. Ahead a mahogany screen with glazed panels and overlights has a door with cut and etched glass with the words 'Royal Oak Hotel'. Hall with a dado of dark green glazed Art Nouveau tiles with a floral motif with continues up stairwell, mahogany stair of Jacobean design, and an elaborate bar with glazed tiles as before and brilliant-cut glazed hatches and overlights. Entrances to rooms have Jacobean style surrounds and doors with cut and etched glass with the words 'Bar Parlour', 'News Room' etc. Rooms generally have fixed upholstered seating, bell pushes, lobby screens and fireplaces some with Art Nouveau tiles. Vault has fixed seating with matchboard backs, bar front with carved Ionic pilasters and a lobby with internal door with cut and etched glass with the words 'Outdoor Department'.

Listing NGR: SJ7751098422