ROYAL OAK INN

ROYAL OAK INN, THE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1309397
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1977
List Entry Name:: ROYAL OAK INN
Statutory Address:: ROYAL OAK INN, THE SQUARE

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Date:: 2002-03-29
Reference:: IOE01/05707/02
Rights:: © Dr Ann Allen. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1309397
Date first listed:: 21-Feb-1977
List Entry Name:: ROYAL OAK INN
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL OAK INN, THE SQUARE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ROYAL OAK INN, THE SQUARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Dolton
National Grid Reference:: SS5698012076

Details

DOLTON

THE SQUARE (west side), Dolton

SS 5612 13/86 21.2.77

Royal Oak Inn

GV II

Inn. C17 heavily remodelled in early to mid C19 with C20 alterations and additions. Plastered rubble and cob walls. Gable-ended slate roof. 2 brick gable-end stacks. Plan: original plan not entirely clear but likely to have been 2-room plan with 2 gable-end fireplaces and possibly central passage. Remodelled and refronted in early to mid C19 then further altered internally in C20 with a rear addition. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front of early to mid C19 tripartite sash windows of 15 panes, 9 panes to 1st floor window of central slightly projecting gabled porch. 1st floor outer windows have arched hoodmoulds with decorative stops. C20 single storey porch added in front of 2 storey one. Rusticated quoins and decorative C19 bargeboards. Interior: much altered in C20 but retains fireplace with C17 chamfered wooden lintel in left-hand room.

Listing NGR: SS5698012076

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Legacy System number:: 90879
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.