The Royal Oak Tap is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. A C18 Public house. 1 related planning application.

The Royal Oak Tap

WRENN ID
tilted-wicket-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sevenoaks
Constituency
Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
Country
England
Type
Public house
Address
The Royal Oak Tap, High Street, TN13 1HY
OS grid reference
TQ 531 541
Coordinates
51.26602, 0.19344
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Royal Oak Tap is a public house located on the west side of High Street, dating back to 1614. It features a painted brick elevation with a random stone plinth and has a four-window facade across two storeys. The building has eaves and a gutter, topped with a hip tiled roof that includes two flat-roofed leaded dormers. The ground floor has an entrance to the saloon bar, which is marked by glazed double doors flanked by sidelights and a rectangular fanlight above. There are two windows to the left of the door and one window to the right.

Local climate

The Royal Oak Tap receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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