The Lamb and Flag 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 Lamb and Flag Public House

WRENN ID
turning-sill-wren
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 Lamb and Flag Public House, Rose Street Wc2, City of Westminster, WC2E 9EB
OS grid reference
TQ 301 808
Coordinates
51.51173, -0.12566
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lamb and Flag Public House is a public house dating from around 1688 or the early 18th century, with its front rebuilt in 1958. The building features a red brick front and a stock brick rear, with what is likely original plum-coloured brick visible in the remains of the closet wing. It has a slate roof and presents a convincing early 19th-century style elevation. The structure is three storeys high with an attic beneath the old slate roof and is two windows wide.

On the ground floor, there is a wooden pilastered public house front with a central window flanked by double doors, topped by an entablature-fascia. To the right, there is a passage entry to Lazenby Court. The upper floors have recessed glazing bar sash windows under flat gauged arches with keystones. The building features a parapet with coping. The rear wall retains part of the original closet wing, and the open passage to Lazenby Court on the pub side has a framed and weatherboarded facing, likely from the late 18th or early 19th century.

Inside, the pub retains part of a dog leg staircase and some plain panelling on the ground and first floors.

Local climate

The Lamb and Flag 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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