The British Flag Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. Public house. 2 related planning applications.

The British Flag Public House

WRENN ID
second-banister-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tendring
Constituency
Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1972
Type
Public house
Address
The British Flag Public House, West Street, Harwich, CO12 3DD
OS grid reference
TM 260 326
Coordinates
51.94606, 1.28701
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The British Flag Public House is a public house and flat, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It features a red Flemish-bond brick front and a clay plain tile gabled roof on the front range. The building is two storeys high, with attics and cellars, and is arranged in an 'L' plan form.

The front elevation includes two flat-roofed dormers with two-light small paned casements. It has a boxed eaves cornice gutter and two flush square double-hung sash windows with small panes and moulded surrounds on the first floor, each topped with slightly curved rubbed brick arches. The ground floor showcases a 19th-century public house front with a canted-out fascia and a blindbox, along with a shop window-like element that has a projecting fascia and two lights. There is an adjoining glazed entrance door with thin reeded jambs and a raised-and-fielded panel in the lower half. The southern part of the facade features a 20th-century window and a window/door unit similar to the earlier design.

The Currents Lane elevation is pebbledashed and also two storeys high, topped with a clay pantiled roof and a large central ridgeline stack. Beyond this section is a painted brick former cottage with a Welsh slate roof, gabled to the northeast and hipped to the southwest. This cottage has a central door opening with a rectangular fanlight and a segmental-arched head, along with two recessed double-hung sash windows with a single vertical glazing bar on the first floor.

Local climate

The British Flag Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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