Royal Oak Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1955. Public house. 1 related planning application.
Royal Oak Public House
- WRENN ID
- roaming-jade-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1955
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Royal Oak Public House, Peterborough Road, Castor, City of Peterborough, PE5 7AX
- OS grid reference
- TL 124 983
- Coordinates
- 52.5717, -0.34217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Oak Public House is a 17th century building located on the north side of Peterborough Road in Castor. It features a tablet with "LB" over "1727" in the gable. The structure is constructed from coursed stone with a plastered front on the western part and has thatched roofs with coped gable ends. The building is Z-shaped in plan, consisting of one storey and an attic. The west range is prominent with a gabled cross wing, while the east range is set back from the road. It has four gabled dormers and the ground floor includes four casements with two and three lights, as well as an 18th century canted bay window. There are two plain doorways, one of which has a simple wooden porch. The building is topped with three brick end stacks.
Local climate
Royal Oak Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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