The Royal Oak

The Royal Oak is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house, originally dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill and a slate roof. The main hall range consists of 2½ framed bays, with a single-bay gabled cross-wing to the right. The hall range has one storey and an attic, while the cross-wing has two storeys.

The framing includes irregular square and rectangular panels, with three panels extending from the cill to the wall-plate, and short straight tension braces. Some of the structure has been rebuilt in brick and is painted in black and white to imitate the original timber framing. The cross-wing has massive projecting single-purlin ends, V-struts from the collar, and 19th-century cusped bargeboards.

The windows have been replaced with late 20th-century casements, with two on the hall range and one on each floor of the cross-wing. The first-floor window in the cross-wing is set within a 19th-century bracketed surround. There are also two late 19th-century gabled eaves dormers with cusped bargeboards and 20th-century windows on either side of the hall range. A 19th-century boarded door is located under a contemporary gabled hood at the far right of the hall range.

The building features a prominent red brick ridge stack at the center of the hall range and an integral lateral stack at the front right corner of the cross-wing. Although the interior could not be inspected during the resurvey in March 1986, it was noted that the right ground-floor room of the hall range has a chamfered spine beam and heavy joists, as well as an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel.