Royal Oak Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Public house. 4 related planning applications.

Royal Oak Public House

WRENN ID
lone-ashlar-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tower Hamlets
Constituency
Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Public house
Address
Royal Oak Public House, 118, Whitechapel Road E1, E1 1JE
OS grid reference
TQ 344 816
Coordinates
51.51803, -0.06374
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Royal Oak Public House is a Victorian building from the second half of the 19th century, located on Whitechapel Road in London. It is constructed of red brick with white stone dressings and features a slate roof. The building stands three storeys tall, with a central portion rising to four storeys, characterized by vertical rusticated stone bands.

Each wing of the building has a window with three lights, each featuring a semi-circular head. The central section has three round-headed windows, and all first-floor windows are topped with shallow arches. The windows are all sash style, framed with stone architraves that include some mouldings. The second-floor windows are adorned with elaborate cast iron balconies supported by decorated corbels. A decorative band runs between the first and second floors.

At the top of the central storey, there is a window with five lights set within a semi-circular head, featuring decorated spandrel motifs above. Figures are used as pilasters on either side of this window, beneath a cornice and pediment. The side wings are capped with a blocking course above the cornice, which is complemented by a cast iron balustrade. The ground floor has a corbelled fascia board and includes a carriage entrance to Vine Court at the eastern end of the building.

Local climate

Royal Oak Public House 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 95% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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