Royal Oak Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1971. Hotel. 5 related planning applications.
Royal Oak Hotel
- WRENN ID
- former-thatch-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1971
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Royal Oak Hotel, 38, High Street, St. Neots, PE19 1BJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 184 602
- Coordinates
- 52.22809, -0.26752
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Oak Hotel, located at 38 and 40 High Street, is a 19th-century building designed in the Tudor style. It has two storeys and cellars, featuring four gabled window bays. The roof is tiled and topped with a wooden lantern. The gables are jettied and bracketed, showcasing half-timbering and barge boards. The first floor is roughcast, while the ground floor is made of painted brick, displaying a tiled public house frontage with Ionic pilasters that support an entablature. The first floor includes splayed bow windows, and the ground floor of the Royal Oak Hotel features three-light windows with colonette mullions. No. 40 has a modern shopfront. Nos 38 to 44 form a group.
Local climate
Royal Oak Hotel sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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 0.4°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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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