The Royal Oak And House/Office Attached

The Royal Oak and House/Office is a public house, private house, and office, dating back to the 16th century or earlier, with alterations and extensions from the 18th to mid-19th centuries. It has a timber-framed core, with sections clad in tile hanging, painted brick, and rendered brick. The roof is plain tiled. The building began as a hall house and has developed with irregular projecting wings to the front and return elevations.

The central block is two storeys high, featuring a jetty and a hipped roof with gablets. It has a central stack and a raking half-dormer with a wooden casement on the ground floor. A six-panelled door, the upper panels glazed, is located to the left. To the right, there’s a two-storey and attic section with a dormer and stack. This section has two glazing bar sash windows on the first floor, and a projecting ground floor bay with two glazing bar sashes and a half-glazed door in the centre.

Further extension to the right forms a two-storey hipped wing, slightly projecting, featuring a single glazing bar sash window on each floor, and a blank window space on the first floor. A large carriage passage leads to a rear courtyard, with a hay basket attached to the inner wall on the ground floor. A boarded door is located to the left.

A 19th-century shop extension is present to the left of the timber-framed range, with a returned hip roof. The shop has two margin light sashes on the first floor and a double canted bay front with recessed double panelled doors and a rectangular fanlight. A large cornice fascia sits on enriched consoles over the entire ground floor.

Inside, the timber frame remains visible.