Royal Oak Hotel
ROYAL OAK HOTEL, STATION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1144667
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL OAK HOTEL, STATION STREET
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- 2002-09-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/08787/03
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1144667
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL OAK HOTEL, STATION STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL OAK HOTEL, STATION STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Keswick
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY2670323416
Details
KESWICK STATION STREET
1. --------------
5161
NY 2623 1/49 Royal Oak Hotel
2.10.51.
II GV
2.
Late C18 and 1909. 3 storeys, the ground floor of scored stucco, pebbledashed
above. Main Street front has 2 shouldered-arched entrances with Gibbs surrounds,
7 windows without glazing bars, bands. Station Street front of older part has
2 stair windows, otherwise 3 windows each floor. Extension to right (east)
dated 1909-10, also 3 storeys, with slate ground floor, dated over doorway and
on rainwater-heads; gables, 4 canted oriels, stone doorway with large round
hood, 12 windows including wing at right angles on east end, mostly 4-light
casements with wood mullions and transoms, and some original ornamental glazing.
This was the main coaching inn of Keswick, and the meeting place for poets.
Sir Walter Scott wrote part of "Bridal of Triermain" here. Lord Tennyson and
R L Stevenson visited, also John Peel. Interior has cornices.
Listing NGR: NY2670323416
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 71802
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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