Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Royal Oak Public House
Adamsdown, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 1 June 2006
- Community
- Adamsdown
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.49078, -3.15041
- Cadw reference
- 87483
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the corner of Broadway and Beresford Road.
History
Late C19 public house.
Exterior
Public house. Brown rock-faced stone with painted dressings, and band courses; hipped slate roofs with terracotta cresting, brick chimneys. Main 3-storey corner block of 4 windows to Broadway and 4 windows to Beresford Road with splayed one-window corner bay. On upper floors, 12-pane horned sash windows. On ground floor, large windows with 3-centred arches. In Broadway elevation, second arch from L is doorway. Corner doorway. In Beresford Road elevation, L arch is doorway. The bar windows in Beresford Road have, behind modern glass, old stained glass panels with inscriptions eg “Irish & Scotch Whiskies”. Over all 3 entrances, a lantern on a bracket. To Beresford Road lower 2-storey, 4-window wing in same materials. Twelve-pane sash windows to first floor, and on ground floor, camber-headed tripartite sash windows. Contemporary flat-roofed WC extension to rear.
Interior
The interior retains much of its original character, and is still divided into separate rooms. Original bar fittings remain. Lobby to Broadway entrance with timber partitions. Long bar to Beresford Street has archway through to rear bar with stained glass. Some cornices, ceiling roses etc.
Reason for designation
Well-preserved late C19 purpose-built public house particularly rare in preserving much of its original planning in the bar areas.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St MargaretReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Telephone call box adjoining boundary wall of Roath CourtCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Roath CourtReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Moorlands HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.