The Old Oak is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. Inn, public house. 1 related planning application.
The Old Oak
- WRENN ID
- north-wattle-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1988
- Type
- Inn, public house
- Address
- The Old Oak, Bonnington, TN25 7BT
- OS grid reference
- TR 071 328
- Coordinates
- 51.05784, 0.95422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Oak is a public house, originally an inn, dating from the mid-18th century. It features painted ragstone and red and blue brick in the gables, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building consists of two parallel ranges and is two storeys high with an attic. It has brick quoins and a brick dentil eaves cornice, with stacks positioned to the left and right, and three hipped dormers. The windows include a regular arrangement of three 19th-century sashes with vertical glazing bars on the first floor, which are narrower in the center, and paired 19th-century sashes on the ground floor with cambered heads. The entrance is marked by a central boarded door with a flat hood supported by brackets. A cantilevered wooden sign beam is located at the top right. The left return features S-ties.
Inside, there is a half-round fireplace with a semi-circular projecting grate, fitted cupboards with butterfly hinges, and a newel stair on the upper floor. The ceilings throughout have chamfered softwood ceiling joists. The building was formerly known as the Royal Oak Inn.
Local climate
The Old Oak receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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