The Lamb Tavern Public House

The Lamb Tavern is an 1855 public house designed by James Bunstone Bunning for the Corporation of the City of London. It is constructed of yellow brick in English bond with Portland stone dressings and a slate roof.

The building is four storeys high, with a basement, and has four windows facing North Road and five facing Shearling Way, representing the principal facades. Rusticated stone quoins mark the corners, and a stone plinth is now painted. There are two flat-arched entrances on North Road, one of which is now blocked, and two on Shearling Way, one of which is blocked. Originally, there was only one entrance, centrally located on the Shearling Way front. Flat-arched ground-floor windows are flanked by slim engaged columns, with the Shearling Way windows and entrances forming a continuous range. The first-floor windows are round-arched with architraves, cornices on consoles, and panelled spandrels; those on Shearling Way have one extra pane, likely relating to a now-missing balcony. A sill band runs above the second-floor windows, which are similarly detailed but with segmental pediments instead of cornices. The third-floor windows are round-arched with bracketed sills, panelled spandrels, and plain stepped pilasters that rise into a plain frieze. A dentil cornice tops the building. All windows retain their original sash designs. The building has two hipped roofs running north-south, with panelled and corniced stacks on each ridge and two end stacks to the south. A single-storey, two-bay range is attached to the south.

The interior retains a 19th-century bar front, panelled and with console brackets to the bar top. Original decorative elements are present, including a frieze on two sides of the bar in North Road, console brackets and a cast-iron column with a foliage capital to the Shearling Way bars, and relief-moulded ceilings.