The Royal Oak is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1966. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
The Royal Oak
- WRENN ID
- young-bailey-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1966
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Royal Oak, Swallowcliffe, SP3 5PA
- OS grid reference
- ST 964 271
- Coordinates
- 51.04334, -2.05164
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Oak is an early 18th-century inn, with a mid-19th century three-bay addition to the left. The original section is constructed of painted dressed limestone, with a thatched roof. The later addition has a Welsh slate roof. Brick and limestone stacks are also present.
The original, two-storey, three-window build features a central 20th-century door set within a chamfered stone case, with recessed chamfered side-lights. To the left is a three-light recessed chamfered mullioned window, and to the right, a two-light casement. The first floor has three-light recessed chamfered mullioned windows either side of a two-light mullioned window. The right return has a two-light mullioned window on the first floor. A stack to the left bears a stone tablet inscribed with "IWE/1705", likely connected to members of the Wyndham family. The rear of the original build has a planked door and two-light and three-light mullioned windows.
The mid-19th century addition, also two storeys and three windows wide, has a central six-panelled door within a gabled porch, flanked by two-light casements. The first floor has two-light casements either side of a blind window. The rear of the addition features two two-light casements to the first floor, a 20th-century porch, and a three-light casement to the ground floor. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
The Royal Oak 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 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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