The Royal Oak Hotel
THE ROYAL OAK HOTEL, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179987
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Royal Oak Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROYAL OAK HOTEL, MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179987
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Royal Oak Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROYAL OAK HOTEL, MARKET 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 HOTEL, MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Malvern Hills (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tenbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 59572 68287
Details
TENBURY CP MARKET STREET (north side) SO 5868 - 5968 8/109 The Royal Oak Hotel 6.10.52
GV II
Public house. Late C16 with mid- to late C19 and mid-C20 alterations. Timber-framed with rendered infill, some weatherboarding and painted brick additions. Plain tiled roof with C19 brick ridge stack and end stacks. Three framed bays aligned north-east/south-west with central chimney. Three storeys. Framing: mainly five panels from sill to wall-plate. Front elevation has six rows of panels at first and second floor level with partly cusped con- cave lozenge decoration. Collar and tie-beam trusses with struts visible at gable ends. Roof raised to accommodate second storey. South-east front elevation: windows are all leaded casements. There are three first floor and three second floor 3-light windows. Ground floor has flat-roofed C19 addition with narrow pilasters flanking an 8-light window to the left and a 3-light window and a canted bay window to the right, of a central round-headed archway. This leads to a small lobby with doorways at each side. Above the archway is an ornate cast iron bracket supporting an octagonal lantern. Substantial additions at rear. Interior has been altered in conversion to hotel. (VCH IV, p 363; BoE, p 279).
Listing NGR: SO5957268287
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150800
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1924), 363
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 279
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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