The Former Royal Oak Public House and attached outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Public house. 4 related planning applications.

The Former Royal Oak Public House and attached outbuilding

WRENN ID
dim-newel-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 February 1988
Type
Public house
Address
The Former Royal Oak Public House and attached outbuilding, London Road, Langley, SG4 7PG
OS grid reference
TL 198 253
Coordinates
51.91363, -0.25834
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Former Royal Oak Public House and its attached outbuilding are located on London Road in Langley. This building dates from the early 18th century, with the domestic section featuring a brick front that was added in the late 18th or early 19th century. The structure has a timber frame that is dark weatherboarded, and the southern half has a red brick front. It has a steep old red tile roof that extends continuously over both parts of the building.

The public house is a long, two-storey block facing east and set back from the road. The southern part consists of three cells and has an entrance leading into a heated room. There is a later chimney and fireplace added to the formerly unheated northern rooms of this section. The east front features three three-light flush casement windows under the eaves of the brick fronted part, with a firemark located between the right-hand pair. The entrance is a third from the south, accessed through a boarded door in a heavy frame, topped with a pitched wooden hood supported by shaped brackets. There is a flat-topped canted bay window with divided casements on each side of the door, and a segmental-headed sunk panel to the right.

The northern part, which is dark weatherboarded, has a door and an upper window near the south end. The rear of the domestic part is also weatherboarded and contains three windows. The northern part includes two stable doors at the front and a pitching door leading to a hay-loft in the upper section. Additionally, there is a small tiled weatherboarded lean-to at the north end.

Local climate

The Former Royal Oak Public House and attached outbuilding sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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