Royal Oak Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Inn. 2 related planning applications.

Royal Oak Inn

WRENN ID
hallowed-threshold-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 April 1961
Type
Inn
Address
Royal Oak Inn, South Petherton, TA13 5LQ
OS grid reference
ST 434 154
Coordinates
50.93539, -2.80557
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Royal Oak Inn is an inn that likely dates from the 18th century and has been modified over time. It is constructed from roughly cut and squared Ham stone, with some ashlar dressings, and features a thatched roof with stepped coped gables. There are brick chimney stacks at both ends and in the middle of the building.

The inn is two storeys high and has six bays with irregular window arrangements. Most of the windows are three-light horizontal-bar casements, with timber lintels on the lower ones. The fifth bay has a three-light hollow-chamfer mullioned window set in a chamfered recess, complete with a label, while the sixth bay features a 12-pane sash window under a timber lintel. There are 20th-century doors to the right of the fourth and fifth bays; the door by the fourth bay is set in a deep recess and has a hanging sign on a braced wrought-iron bracket above it. Several openings in the first four bays have been blocked.

The south gable is plain, while the north gable has bonding timber along the floor line. There is a later 20th-century extension at the north-east corner of the building. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Royal Oak Inn receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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