Listed Building record TQ 55 SW 175 - THE ROYAL OAK HOTEL

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HIGH STREET 1. 1614 (West Side)
The Royal Oak Hotel TQ 5354/1/28 13.4.51 II 2. Circa 1800. Symmetrical 1.3.1 facade of 3 storeys. Centre slightly recessed. Elevation of coursed local stone blocks with flint infilling to mortar joints. Stucco band above ground floor windows. Rusticated red brick quoins and dressings to windows. Flat lintel arches over windows of painted red brick. Centre half-glazed and panelled double doors with glazing barn and rectangular fanlight over. Centre projecting porch with coupled plaster Doric columns supporting moulded stucco entablature with triglyph frieze and guttae. Soffit of moulded cornice with mutules. Ornamental cast iron Cl9 railings surmounting porch forming verandah. Tripartite sash windows on ground floor. Oblong sash windows on first floor. Square sash windows on second floor. All sash windows with glazing bars. First floor and second floor windows with ornamental sunblind cases. Flat projecting eaves and gutter with plastered soffit. Low pitched hipped slate roof. 2 brick stacks.
Listing NGR: TQ5312254159 (1)

In 1994 a survey on cellars in the Sevenoaks area was undertaken. Cellar under thrid of original building. (2)

Historic England archive amterial: BF103963 ROYAL OAK HOTEL, HIGH STREET, SEVENOAKS

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> ?, 1994, Sevenoaks Cellar Survey (Unpublished document). SKE17186.