The Royal Oak is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1983. A C17 House. 2 related planning applications.
The Royal Oak
- WRENN ID
- secret-rood-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Royal Oak, Fore Street, Thorncombe, TA20 4PD
- OS grid reference
- ST 376 032
- Coordinates
- 50.82559, -2.88727
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Oak is a house dating from the 17th century, attached to "Newhaven". It features rubble walls with freestone and a rubble gable wall, and has keyed stone heads above the windows. The roof, which is made of 20th-century Roman tiles, has three brick stacks located at the ridge: one on the left, one in the middle-right, and one on the far-right. The entrance door is situated at the center, leading into a cross-passage. The building has two storeys and a five-window range with casement windows. There are two stone mullioned windows with labels in the gable wall, one of which is blocked, and a wide plank door.
Inside, the hall contains a wide open fireplace with a wooden lintel opposite the cross-passage wall, and the ceiling features chamfered beams. The parlour has a stone fireplace with a depressed-arch form, dating from around 1600, with a roll-moulded arch cut into it from the 18th century. The roof structure consists of tie and collar-beam trusses with plated yokes. Additionally, there is 18th-century graffiti on the gable wall.
Local climate
The Royal Oak receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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