The Royal Oak P H is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 11 March 1992. Public house. 3 related planning applications.

The Royal Oak P H

WRENN ID
lost-jade-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
11 March 1992
Type
Public house
Address
The Royal Oak P H, 38 High Street, Lampeter, SA48 7BB
OS grid reference
SN 576 481
Coordinates
52.11306, -4.08
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Royal Oak Public House is a hotel built in painted stucco with a slate roof and stone or rendered stacks. It features a three-storey main range with three plus one bays and a forward-projecting two-window, two-storey addition on the left, all at the same ridge level.

The main range has a rendered east stack and a stone ridge stack, with a raised plinth and a rusticated ground floor. It includes a broad first-floor sill band, a narrow second-floor sill band, and angle quoins on the upper floors. One of the quoins has a painted inscription stating, "This pine end was wholly built on the property and at the expense of T H Jones in the year 1842." The symmetrical three-window section on the right features two ground floor 12-pane sash windows in moulded architraves and three 9-pane sash windows in the attic. The left bay is similar but has a broad cambered-arched carriage entry with voussoirs and a keystone on the ground floor, along with one window on each floor above that matches those on the right. A large painted Royal Oak panel is located between the first-floor windows.

The addition on the left matches the main range in style and has a large stone east stack on the ridge and a small rendered west stack. The ground floor features a central six-pane sash window with voussoirs and a keystone, while the first floor has two 4-pane sash windows. The east return has a 4-pane sash window on each floor, and the west end wall is roughcast. The carriageway is equipped with a large wooden gate.

Local climate

The Royal Oak P H sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
  • 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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