The Old Royal Oak is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Public house.
The Old Royal Oak
- WRENN ID
- lesser-paling-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Old Royal Oak, Fen Road, Pakenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 935 685
- Coordinates
- 52.28083, 0.83604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Royal Oak is a former public house dating from the late 17th century. It has one and a half storeys and a three-cell plan. The building is timber-framed, with part of the north side plastered, while the south side and east end are faced in 19th-century brick. The west gable features a rubble flint construction with a chimney stack facing the street. Inside, there is an internal chimney stack. The south side has three 19th-century small-paned casement windows with segmental arched heads. Along the north side, there are two late 19th-century single-storey lean-tos, with a dormer above. The front door, which is a fine 18th-century six-panel design with raised fielded panels, is now located inside a lean-to. The doors on the ground storey still display the former public house numbers 1 to 6.
Local climate
The Old Royal Oak 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
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