It was in 1860, during the time of the landlordship of Albany Featherstonhaugh (1791–1871)[4] that the pub was renamed the Royal Oak Hotel.

It was home to the local branch of the Inland Revenue and an excise office.

[1] It was also popular with workers on the adjacent goods siding, just south of the original location of Poulton-le-Fylde railway station.

This station closed in 1896, and a new one opened a short distance away on Breck Road.

The three-storey building was demolished in June 2018, after lying empty for several years.