The Royal Oak Public House

The Royal Oak Public House is a building that likely dates back to the 15th century, with extensions from the early 18th and 19th centuries. It was raised later in the 19th century and restored in early 1934. The structure features a timber frame, with the ground floor at the front made of herringbone brick set on a stone plinth, while the upper storeys are rendered and whitewashed. The 18th-century extension is constructed of orange-brown brick in English garden-wall bond, and the rear of the 19th-century extension is rendered. The building possibly has a hall and crosswing plan with rear extensions.

The exterior showcases a three-storey, two-window hall to the left of a three-storey, one-window crosswing that has a jettied first floor. There is a cellar opening in the hall section. The crosswing features a 20th-century Tudor-arched panelled door beneath a leaded overlight, located to the left of a four-light window with moulded mullions, and there are two similar windows on the hall. A broad fascia and moulded cornice above the ground floor openings project on heavy brackets on the crosswing. The first and second floors have casement cross-windows, and the eaves cornice is moulded on console brackets. The windows are fitted with square lattice leaded lights. At the rear, there is a three-storey gabled wing to the left of a two-storey extension, with most windows being four-pane sashes. The 19th-century extension features timber guttering on block brackets.

Inside, there is a close string staircase with turned balusters, which is boxed in on the lower flight, and a ramped-up moulded handrail that rises to the first floor. On the first floor, elements of the timber frame are visible in the front rooms, including a moulded bressumer for the jettied second floor of the adjacent Golden Slipper Public House. The rear room to the left has a moulded cornice and a painted cast-iron fireplace.