The Royal Oak Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1989. Hotel. 3 related planning applications.
The Royal Oak Hotel
- WRENN ID
- gilded-hearth-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1989
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Royal Oak Hotel, High Street, Great Ayton, TS9 6BW
- OS grid reference
- NZ 562 106
- Coordinates
- 54.4885, -1.13295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Oak Hotel is a hotel dated 1721, as indicated by the sundial above the door. It features alterations and an early 19th-century extension. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone and is colourwashed. The roof is covered with plain clay tiles, featuring a terracotta ridge and brick stacks.
The main building is two storeys high with an attic and has two wide bays. The lower extension is also two storeys and has two bays. The central porch has been altered and is prostyle, sharing its entablature with a wide canted bay window on the left. There is a smaller, similar bay window on the right and another in the left extension, along with a subsidiary door on the left.
On the first floor, there are 16-pane sash windows set in stone architraves. The sundial is inscribed with the words 'Deus adest laborantibus'. The roof of the main house has been raised to a mansard form, likely in the early 20th century, and features two large dormers. The end stacks include a left stack that is stone-coped and a right stack that has been rebuilt.
Local climate
The Royal Oak Hotel receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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