This pub is not only a grade II listed building, it is also a Three Star pub on the Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) National Inventory with an interior of outstanding national historic importance, and the description is as follows: "Popular pub of late 17th-century origin but re-fronted in 1958. Retains a fair amount of Victorian and (in, say, the closed-in staircase) earlier woodwork. Still retains one partition that forms two bars but, sadly, another at the front left was removed in the early 1990s. Note the disembodied hand over the left-hand entrance pointing right to the public bar, thus confirming the front area would have been partitioned. The front bar retains an old panelled counter curved at the front and with decorative brackets, also cupboards. The original bar back fitting features two large mirrors with decorative borders. Old dado panelling, black painted wooden floor and leaded front windows.

Rear bar partitioned off by a (now doorless) screen and containing some old half-height wall panelling and black painted wooden floored. It has an old curving bar counter but different style to the front bar one so looks inter-war. It has an unusual fielded panelled fireplace (date?), good H & G Simonds Ltd mirror and settle pew seating in keeping with a traditional interior. Upstairs the Dryden Room also has a bare wooden floor, old dado panelling at the rear, which was a separate room in the past. The bar counter with its decorative carved front looks like it could be an import but parts to the left and right are modern. The very good bar back with cut glass mirrors is modern. Opposite the counter is a fine three part mirrored mantelpiece but no fireplace below and there is a good settle at the front."

The listing description is as follows: “Public house. c.1688 or early C.18 carcase, front rebuilt 1958. Red brick front, stock brick rear but with probably original plum coloured brick to remains of closet wing, slate roof. Convincing early C.19 style elevation. 3 storeys and attic in old slate roof. 2 windows wide. Ground floor has wooden pilastered public house front with central window flanked by double doors, under entablature-fascia and to right passage entry to Lazenby Court. Recessed glazing bar sashes to upper floors under flat gauged arches with keystones. Parapet with coping. Rear wall retains part of original closet wing and the open passage to Lazenby Court on the pub side has framed and weatherboarded facing probably late C.18 or early C.19. Interior retains part of dog leg staircase and some plain panelling on ground and 1st floors. Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI”

The WhatPub link is here: WhatPub/Lamb & Flag

The Pub Heritage Group link is here: PHG/Lamb & Flag

The Lamb & Flag featured on the Oranges Are Not The only Fruit - Have a Banana: Evening Crawl of The Strand and Covent Garden on 14 April 2010.

Exterior Front Bar & Doorway Saloon Bar Saloon Bar Counter