Description

WESTON-UNDER- WESTON
SJ 5628-5728 REDCASTLE C.P.

17/191 The Royal Oak
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28.10.60
GV II
Farmhouse, latterly inn, now house. Late C16 or early C17 with later
additions and alterations. Timber framed with painted brick infill;
slate roof. Hall range apparently of 2½ framed bays with flush single-
bay gabled cross-wing to right. One storey and attic to hall range,
2 storeys to cross-wing. Framing: irregular square and rectangular
panels, 3 from cill to wall-plate, with short straight tensions braces,
partly rebuilt in brick and painted black and white in imiation; massive
projecting single-purlin ends to cross-wing with V-struts from collar
and C19 cusped bargeboards. Late C20 casement fenestration, 2 to hall
range and one on each floor to cross-wing, that on first floor in C19
bracketed window surround; 2 late C19 gabled eaves dormers with cusped
bargeboards and C20 windows to left and right of hall range. C19 boarded
door under contemporary gabled hood to far right of hall range. Prominent
red brick ridge stack to centre of hall range and integral lateral
stack to front right corner of cross-wing. Interior: inspection not
possible at time of resurvey (March 1986) but right ground-floor room
of hall range noted as having chamfered spine beam and heavy joists;
inglenook fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel.

Listing NGR: SJ5650428839

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26554912

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