Lamb and Flag Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1986. Inn. 2 related planning applications.

Lamb and Flag Inn

WRENN ID
late-lead-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 August 1986
Type
Inn
Address
Lamb and Flag Inn, Pitminster, TA3 7SL
OS grid reference
ST 211 180
Coordinates
50.95665, -3.12424
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lamb and Flag Inn is a 17th-century inn, likely a rebuild of an earlier dwelling, with alterations made in the early 19th and 20th centuries. It features slobbered rubble construction and a half-hipped Bridgwater patent tile roof, with a large brick stack located in the fourth bay on the left. The building has a two-cell plan with a cross passage and a two-storey porch facing east. The south gable end has been extended, and there is an outshot at the rear.

The inn stands two storeys high, with the end bay on the left beyond the stack being unlit. The front has 20th-century windows flanking a full-height gabled porch supported by timber posts, which is infilled with brick. The ground floor has 20th-century windows flanking the porch and a plank door in the left end bay. The right return features raking buttresses, while the left return has two 3-light ovolo moulded mullioned windows and a 20th-century window in the outshot at the rear.

Inside, only part of the interior is visible. There is an early 19th-century stick stair that blocks the passage, which now serves as a lobby. A right axial chamfered beam with scroll and run-out stops is present, and in the former kitchen, there is a chamfered lintel above the fireplace, along with remains of a curing chamber and/or stair beside it. The inn has been operating since the 18th century, and likely even earlier.

Local climate

Lamb and Flag Inn receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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