The Frigate Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1973. Public house.
The Frigate Public House
- WRENN ID
- lone-foundation-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1973
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Frigate Public House, Great Newport Street Wc2, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 300 808
- Coordinates
- 51.51199, -0.12731
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Frigate Public House is a corner public house built around 1890. It features red brick construction with painted stone bands and dressings, topped by a slate roof. This lively Jacobethan "gin palace" stands four storeys high with a dormered mansard roof. The building is two windows wide, with a corner turret and a three-window return along Upper St. Martin's Lane.
The ground floor showcases an elaborate painted stone and polished granite façade, featuring a corner entrance with double panelled and glazed doors, a fanlight, and segmental arched bar windows divided by enriched pilasters. The upper floors have sash windows set in stone frames; the first-floor windows are semicircular arched with keystones and enriched spandrels, while the second floor features oriel windows with scrolled pediments and enriched aprons. The building also has pedimented stucco gabled attics and a balustraded parapet above a dentil cornice. The corner turret is topped with a cupola and a short spire that includes a weathervane. The interior, designed in the 1970s, has a naval theme.
Local climate
The Frigate Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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