Inn · Tetbury
The Royal Oak, Tetbury
A late eighteenth-century pub with rooms on Cirencester Road, Tetbury, back in community hands since 2013, with dog-friendly rooms.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
A community-minded pub with rooms and the Oak Lodge, and space for dogs.
- Good: Three ground-floor dog-friendly rooms, with no charge for dogs
- Good: Breakfast included, with vegan and vegetarian versions
- Good: Car park behind the pub, and a free long-stay car park a minute away
- Good: Step-free Garden Room and an accessible toilet
- Worth knowing: No food on Sunday evenings
- Worth knowing: Dogs not allowed in the upstairs dining room
About
The Royal Oak at 1 Cirencester Road, Tetbury, is a late eighteenth-century free house that reopened in 2013 after a long restoration. Downstairs is a saloon bar with booths, an Art Deco piano and a jukebox, serving real ales; upstairs is a dining room in the rafters, also used for private dining.
There are six rooms, from £115 a night with breakfast. The Oak Lodge, from £190, is a suite with a super-king bed, a mezzanine with twin beds, a roll-top bath and a wood-burner. Three ground-floor rooms, the Garden Room and Rooms One and Two, take dogs at no charge, and the Garden Room has wheelchair access. Check-in is from 3pm and check-out by 11am, or 1pm for an extra £25 (2026).
The menu is seasonal pub cooking, with vegan and gluten-free dishes always on and a children's menu. Food is served at lunch and early evening from Monday to Saturday, and at Sunday lunch. Dogs are welcome in the downstairs bar. In summer an Airstream in the garden serves street food from guest chefs. It is listed in the Good Pub Guide and the Good Beer Guide.
The pub also lets Acorn House, a Grade II listed self-catering house within walking distance of the town centre. It sleeps eight in four bedrooms (a super-king, a twin and two doubles) with three bathrooms, from £650 a night (2026), with parking for five cars behind gates. Dogs stay at no extra charge but keep to the kitchen and dining rooms, and guests check in at the pub from 3pm.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 12:00
| Mon | Opening | Food served | Breakfast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 12:00 to 22:30 | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 20:00 | 08:00 to 10:00 |
| Tuesday | 12:00 to 22:30 | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 20:00 | 08:00 to 10:00 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 to 22:30 | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 20:00 | 08:00 to 10:00 |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 22:30 | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 20:00 | 08:00 to 10:00 |
| Friday | 12:00 to 23:30 | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 20:00 | 08:00 to 10:00 |
| Saturday | 12:00 to 23:30 | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 20:00 | 08:00 to 10:00 |
| Sunday | 12:00 to 21:00 | 12:00 to 15:30 | 08:00 to 10:00 |
Food served: Sunday lunch only; no food on Sunday evenings.
Breakfast: Residents only. The food page gives 8am to 10am, the rooms page 8.30am to 10am.
Bank holidays keep Sunday hours unless stated. The Airstream in the garden serves street food in summer.
The details
- Food
- Pub classics · Modern British
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Vegetarian dishes · Vegan dishes · Gluten-free dishes · Children's menu
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Rooms
- 6
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Features
- Bar · Restaurant · Real ale · Garden or terrace · Private dining · Dogs in rooms · Dogs inside · Accessible rooms · Parking
- Awards
- Good Hotel Guide Editor's Choice, pubs with rooms (2021)
- Good Pub Guide
- Good Beer Guide
- History
- Late 18th-century free house; reopened after restoration in 2013
- Parking
- Car park for residents and customers behind the pub, off Herd Lane. Tetbury's free long-stay car park is a minute's walk away.
Photos
The garden 
The bar 
A bedroom 
From the kitchen
Location
Accessibility
- Step-free access
- Accessible toilet
The Garden Room is a ground-floor room with wheelchair access. One accessible toilet, with baby changing. Call ahead to talk through access needs.
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Snooty Fox 0.4 km away
- The Priory Inn 0.4 km away
- The Gilbertine Kitchen 0.4 km away
- The Close Hotel 0.5 km away
Sights nearby
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Market House, Tetbury
Sight · Historic building · Tetbury
Tetbury's pillared Market House of 1655 stands in the middle of the town: a timber-framed hall on three rows of stone columns, built and still owned by the Tetbury Feoffees, with a cupola, a dolphin weathervane and markets underneath every week. Grade I.
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Old police station and court, Tetbury
Sight · Historic building · Tetbury
Tetbury's police station and magistrates' court of 1884 on Long Street, with its cells and courtroom intact, now the town council offices and a free police museum holding what the council calls the largest collection of British handcuffs and restraints on public view.
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St Mary the Virgin, Tetbury
Sight · Church · Tetbury
Tetbury's parish church, rebuilt in 1777 to 1781 by Francis Hiorn as a tall Gothick hall with wooden clustered columns, box pews and side passages, under a medieval tower and spire rebuilt in the 1890s. Grade I; open every day.
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St Saviour's Church, Tetbury
Sight · Church · Tetbury
A Victorian chapel of ease of 1848 on New Church Street, Tetbury, built for the poor who could not pay for pews at St Mary's and furnished with help from Pugin and Hardman; now cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust and open Monday to Saturday.