The Royal Oak
THE ROYAL OAK, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153272
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Royal Oak
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROYAL OAK, FORE STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-10-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/05514/13
- Rights:
- © Mr Harold T. F. Jenkins. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153272
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Royal Oak
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROYAL OAK, FORE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROYAL OAK, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorncombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 37603 03271
Details
ST 3703 THORNCOMBE FORE STREET, NORTH SIDE 7/100 The Royal Oak, (formerly listed as Royal Oak Inn) GV II House: attached to "Newhaven" C17. Rubble walls with freestone and rubble gable-wall. Keyed stone heads to windows. C20 Roman-tile roof. Three brick stacks at ridge, at left, mid-right and far-right. Door at centre into cross-passage. Two storeys. Five window range with casements. Two stone mullioned windows with lables in gable wall, one blocked. Wide plank door. Interior: Hall: wide open fireplace with wooden lintel opposite cross-passage wall. Chamfered ceiling beams, Parlour stone fireplace of depressed-arch form, c.1600. Roll-moulded arch cut into this, C18. Roof: tie and collar-beam trusses with plated yokes. Subsidiary: C18 graffiti on gable wall. Sources: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p. 248(21).
Listing NGR: ST3760303271
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104608
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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