Flan O'Brien's is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1975. Public house.

Flan O'Brien's

WRENN ID
sacred-gravel-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bath and North East Somerset
Constituency
Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 August 1975
Type
Public house
Address
Flan O'Brien's, 21, Westgate Street
OS grid reference
ST 748 647
Coordinates
51.38149, -2.36238
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Flan O'Brien's is a public house built around 1860. It features a narrow frontage with a splayed corner and a long return to Saw Close, topped with a low hipped roof and deep bracketed eaves. The building is three storeys high with a basement and has a total of ten bays, arranged as two bays, one bay, and seven bays. All the windows are plain sash, with the first-floor windows set beneath a cornice that projects from the wall, arranged in a rhythm of one:two:two:one bays. There is a clock set in a masonry surround at cornice level on the splay.

The ground floor has large plain arched windows that are set deep into an arcade, supported by splayed channelled piers with geometrical vermiculation on the capitals. The arches have a shallow hollow profile, with keys running out through a moulded string-course. There are doors located at the splay, the center of the long side, and at the left-hand end, along with a basement access panel on Westgate Street. The building has a moulded plinth that steps out to the central doors, deep eaves-bands that are interrupted by the tops of the window heads, and deep open eaves with a small fascia board and ogee gutter, supported by shaped wooden brackets. There are two eaves stacks with band and bracketed cappings, and one stack on the right side facing Westgate Street.

Inside, the pub's interior is of recent date. This prominent corner building showcases a blend of traditional Georgian and fashionable Italianate styles, reflecting the transitional period in Bath's architecture and typical of mid-Victorian commercial buildings.

Local climate

Flan O'Brien's receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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