The Royal Oak Public House

The Royal Oak Public House is a mid-17th century building that has undergone alterations and additions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is timber framed with painted brick nogging, partly rendered and rebuilt in painted brick, topped with a plain tile roof. The structure consists of two framed bays, featuring square panels with long straight tension braces. It has one storey and an attic, with two gabled eaves dormers that contain 2-light 19th century wooden casements. There is an external brick end stack on the left and an integral brick end stack behind the ridge on the right.

The front of the building has three windows; two 20th century two-light metal casements on the left and a 19th century projecting hipped square bay on the right with a 2-light wooden casement. A 20th century half-glazed door is positioned between the first and second windows from the left. The left-hand gable end reveals an exposed collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts and V-struts.

At the rear, there is a two-storey painted stone and brick gabled wing with an external brick corner stack. This wing was formerly a stable and coach house, now converted into a first-floor games room. It is constructed of painted coursed sandstone rubble and features a plain tile roof, two first-floor 3-light wooden casements, a small ground-floor wooden casement to the left, a segmental-headed boarded door just off-centre to the left, and a pair of large boarded doors to the right with a segmental head.

Inside, the right-hand ground-floor ceiling has a chamfered and ogee-stopped cross-beamed design with chamfered and ogee-stopped joists, while the left-hand ground-floor ceiling features a chamfered spine beam and plain joists. There is also a large open fireplace with a chamfered lintel and a former bread oven.