The Royal Oak is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1978. Inn.

The Royal Oak

WRENN ID
eternal-hinge-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 June 1978
Type
Inn
Address
The Royal Oak, 76, London Road, Chippenham
OS grid reference
ST 925 727
Coordinates
51.45383, -2.10862
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Royal Oak is an inn dating from the mid-18th century, specifically before 1784. It features a construction of limestone rubble with a rendered brick facade and ashlar quoins. The roof is a 20th-century plain-tiled gambrel style with two hipped dormers.

The building has two storeys with an attic and a symmetrical two-unit plan, although there are 20th-century additions to the left and rear. The exterior includes three-light ogee-moulded stone-mullioned windows and a door frame with roll-edged moulding. There is a shallow stone hood from the mid-19th century with a reeded edge and moulded brackets above the door. On the ground floor to the left, there are mid-19th century paired 6/6-pane sash windows. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Royal Oak receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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