Royal Oak is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Cottage.
Royal Oak
- WRENN ID
- patient-tallow-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Royal Oak, Abbots Ripton
- OS grid reference
- TL 238 793
- Coordinates
- 52.39828, -0.18172
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Oak is a cottage that was formerly a public house, dating from the early 17th century. It is timber framed, with roughcast rendering and a long straw thatch half-hipped roof. The building has one storey and an attic, featuring a small 19th-century gable dormer. On the ground floor, there is one horizontal sliding sash window and a 19th-century boarded door with bead and quirk moulding. The southeast end has a modern casement window and a doorway. Inside, one room has a ceiling made of substantial joists laid flat, suggesting an early 17th-century date, which may also apply to the adjoining cottage to the northwest.
Local climate
Royal Oak 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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