The Royal Oak Tavern is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
The Royal Oak Tavern
- WRENN ID
- dim-brick-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Royal Oak Tavern, Chapel Lane, Blisworth
- OS grid reference
- SP 727 535
- Coordinates
- 52.17514, -0.93821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Oak Tavern is a public house dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and has a painted finish, topped with a plain-tile roof and brick end stacks. The building has a two-unit plan and is two stories high with a two-window range.
The central entrance features a 20th-century door set within a gabled porch, flanked by canted bay windows that have 16-pane sashes on the front and 4-pane sashes on the sides. The first floor has two-light casement windows. The gables are stone-coped with kneelers. To the right, there is a lower two-story, one-window extension that includes a glazed plank door and a three-light casement window on the ground floor, both with wooden lintels, as well as a two-light dormer window. The end stack of the wing has a stone base.
Inside, the tavern features chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer.
Local climate
The Royal Oak Tavern sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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