Description

YORK

SE6052SE GOODRAMGATE
1112-1/14/389 (North West side)
01/07/68 No.18
The Royal Oak Public House

GV II

House, now public house. Probably C15 with extensions of early
C18 and C19; raised later in C19 and restored early 1934.
MATERIALS: timber-frame, ground floor at front of herringbone
brick on stone plinth, upper storeys rendered and whitewashed;
C18 extension orange-brown brick in English garden-wall bond;
rear of C19 extension rendered: timber cornice to pantile roof
with brick stacks. Possibly hall and crosswing plan with rear
extensions.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-window hall, to left of 3-storey 1-window
crosswing with jettied first floor. Cellar opening in hall
part. C20 Tudor-arched panelled door beneath leaded overlight
in crosswing, to left of 4-light window with moulded mullions:
two similar windows to hall. Broad fascia and moulded cornice
above ground floor openings, projecting on heavy brackets on
crosswing. Casement cross-windows on first and second floors.
Moulded eaves cornice on console brackets. Windows have square
lattice leaded lights. Rear: 3-storey gabled wing to left of
2-storey extension. Windows are largely 4-pane sashes. C19
extension has timber guttering on block brackets.
INTERIOR: close string staircase with turned balusters (boxed
in on lower flight) and ramped-up moulded handrail rises to
first floor. On first floor, elements of timber-frame are
visible in front rooms, including moulded bressumer for
jettied second floor of adjacent Golden Slipper Public House
(qv). Rear room to left has moulded cornice and painted
cast-iron fireplace.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 142).

Listing NGR: SE6051852193

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Royal Oak public house at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26549089

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings