The Royal Oak Public House

YORK

SE6052SE GOODRAMGATE 1112-1/14/389 (North West side) 01/07/68 No.18 The Royal Oak Public House

GV II

House, now public house. Probably C15 with extensions of early C18 and C19; raised later in C19 and restored early 1934. MATERIALS: timber-frame, ground floor at front of herringbone brick on stone plinth, upper storeys rendered and whitewashed; C18 extension orange-brown brick in English garden-wall bond; rear of C19 extension rendered: timber cornice to pantile roof with brick stacks. Possibly hall and crosswing plan with rear extensions. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-window hall, to left of 3-storey 1-window crosswing with jettied first floor. Cellar opening in hall part. C20 Tudor-arched panelled door beneath leaded overlight in crosswing, to left of 4-light window with moulded mullions: two similar windows to hall. Broad fascia and moulded cornice above ground floor openings, projecting on heavy brackets on crosswing. Casement cross-windows on first and second floors. Moulded eaves cornice on console brackets. Windows have square lattice leaded lights. Rear: 3-storey gabled wing to left of 2-storey extension. Windows are largely 4-pane sashes. C19 extension has timber guttering on block brackets. INTERIOR: close string staircase with turned balusters (boxed in on lower flight) and ramped-up moulded handrail rises to first floor. On first floor, elements of timber-frame are visible in front rooms, including moulded bressumer for jettied second floor of adjacent Golden Slipper Public House (qv). Rear room to left has moulded cornice and painted cast-iron fireplace. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 142).

Listing NGR: SE6051852193