Royal Oak Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1952. Public house. 5 related planning applications.
Royal Oak Public House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-doorway-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1952
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Royal Oak Public House, 417, High Street, Swanage
- OS grid reference
- SZ 014 789
- Coordinates
- 50.61002, -1.98082
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Oak Public House is a late 18th to early 19th century building located on the south side of High Street. It features walls and a roof made of Purbeck Stone, with brick stacks. The structure is two storeys tall with attics. The ground floor includes an entrance door and three double-hung sash windows. On the first floor, there are three additional double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. In the attic, there is a dormer with a pent roof and a side-hung casement. A wrought iron hanging sign is present, which may be modern.
Local climate
Royal Oak Public House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 5 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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