Royal Oak Cottage the Royal Oak Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1973. Public house, cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Royal Oak Cottage the Royal Oak Public House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-entrance-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1973
- Type
- Public house, cottage
- Address
- Royal Oak Cottage the Royal Oak Public House, Lower Road, River, CT17 0QU
- OS grid reference
- TR 294 434
- Coordinates
- 51.14423, 1.27962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Oak Public House and Royal Oak Cottage is an L-shaped building dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. The exterior features flint with red brick dressings and quoins. The building is two storeys high, with a half-hipped gable on the inn that includes a second-floor window. Notably, there is evidence of a timber-framed structure beneath the exterior; in the passage between the two houses, some white-washed timber-framing is visible in the north wall of Royal Oak Cottage on the ground floor. The property has four windows.
Local climate
Royal Oak Cottage the Royal Oak Public House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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