History of the Royal Oak

The Royal Oak (69 High Street) is a Grade II listed building and presumed to be a former coaching inn. It was first mentioned in trade directories from the early 1800s, it has been subject to several developments and extensions since then.

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Throughout the 1800s the Royal Oak hosted annual balls in its large Assembly Room. The building also acted as the town's first courthouse and hosted several important town meetings.

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While it was once a very successful establishment, by the early 2000s it was in decline and was brought by a pub company in the late 1990s, it closed for good in 2013.

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The current owner brought the building around 2015, with the intention of turning the building into apartments; with two offices on the ground floor. However, this planning lapsed with very little work completed.

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The owner then attempted to sell the building without planning permission. When he failed to find a buyer, he submitted a new planning application, to turn the building completely into apartments (this was turned down by SMDC in May 2022).

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For more detail, visit the Royal Oak entry on the Pubs of Cheadle Staffordshire: Past and Present website.

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