The Royal Oak

WESTON-UNDER- WESTON SJ 5628-5728 REDCASTLE C.P. 17/191 The Royal Oak - 28.10.60 GV II Farmhouse, latterly inn, now house. Late C16 or early C17 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with painted brick infill; slate roof. Hall range apparently of 2½ framed bays with flush single- bay gabled cross-wing to right. One storey and attic to hall range, 2 storeys to cross-wing. Framing: irregular square and rectangular panels, 3 from cill to wall-plate, with short straight tensions braces, partly rebuilt in brick and painted black and white in imiation; massive projecting single-purlin ends to cross-wing with V-struts from collar and C19 cusped bargeboards. Late C20 casement fenestration, 2 to hall range and one on each floor to cross-wing, that on first floor in C19 bracketed window surround; 2 late C19 gabled eaves dormers with cusped bargeboards and C20 windows to left and right of hall range. C19 boarded door under contemporary gabled hood to far right of hall range. Prominent red brick ridge stack to centre of hall range and integral lateral stack to front right corner of cross-wing. Interior: inspection not possible at time of resurvey (March 1986) but right ground-floor room of hall range noted as having chamfered spine beam and heavy joists; inglenook fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel.

Listing NGR: SJ5650428839