The Royal Oak Hotel

The Royal Oak Hotel dates to around 1800. It is a three-storey building with a symmetrical facade of three bays, the centre bay slightly recessed. The building is constructed of coursed local stone blocks with flint infilling between the joints. A stucco band runs above the ground-floor windows. Red brick quoins and dressings are present around the windows, and flat lintel arches over the windows are made of painted red brick. The central entrance features half-glazed and panelled double doors with a transom and a rectangular fanlight above. A projecting porch has coupled plaster Doric columns supporting a moulded stucco entablature with a triglyph frieze and guttae. The soffit of the porch is a moulded cornice with mutules. Ornamental cast iron railings form a verandah above the porch. The ground floor has tripartite sash windows, the first floor has oblong sash windows, and the second floor has square sash windows; all with glazing bars. Ornamental sunblind cases are affixed to the first and second floor windows. The building has flat projecting eaves and a gutter with a plastered soffit, and a low-pitched hipped slate roof with two brick stacks.