Eat and drink · Lacock
Sign of the Angel, Lacock
A fifteenth-century coaching inn on Church Street, Lacock, with a two AA Rosette restaurant, log burners, a garden by the stream and five bedrooms; brunch, lunch and dinner.
The best-regarded kitchen in Lacock, in an old inn with three dining rooms and a garden by the stream. It is cashless, it serves no dinner on Sundays, and it is worth booking.
- Good: Two AA Rosettes
- Good: Garden by the stream for cream teas in summer
- Good: Dogs welcome in the rooms, restaurant and garden
- Worth knowing: Cashless
- Worth knowing: No dinner on Sundays
- Worth knowing: No car park; bedrooms up the stairs, no lift
About
The Sign of the Angel is a fifteenth-century coaching inn on Church Street in Lacock, the National Trust village a short drive from Chippenham. It is a restaurant with five bedrooms, and its kitchen holds two AA Rosettes.
The cooking uses local, seasonal produce, served in three dining rooms with large log burners and a relaxed manner. Brunch runs from 10am to 11.30am from Monday to Saturday, and briefly on Sunday mornings; lunch is from noon to 2.30pm, and dinner from 6pm to 9pm, Monday to Saturday. On Sundays lunch goes on until 7pm and there is no dinner. In summer the garden by the stream is the place for a cream tea or a bottle of wine.
It is a cashless business. Book a table online or by phone; tables of ten or more book by phone, with a deposit and a pre-order a week ahead. For a party of up to 22, the head chef will plan a menu. On Christmas Day 2026 it serves lunch at 1pm and closes at 4pm.
The five bedrooms are all on the first floor, up the stairs with no lift, and the inn says it is not suitable for guests with restricted mobility. Breakfast is included when you book direct. Check-in is from 3pm to 9pm (7pm on Sundays), and Sawday's and Expedia list check-out at 10.30am. Dogs are welcome in every room, in the restaurant and in the garden, for £15 a night; the garden is not enclosed, Sawday's notes, so keep a dog on a lead near the road. There is no car park: use the free village car park on the High Street or park on the street, away from residents' doors.
Lacock Abbey and the Fox Talbot Museum are at the end of the village street, and our 7-mile walk from Lacock leaves past St Cyriac's for Reybridge, the old canal and Naish Hill, about two hours. The George Inn is the plainer village pub.
Opening hours and season
Breakfast
| Monday | 10:00 to 11:30 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 10:00 to 11:30 |
| Wednesday | 10:00 to 11:30 |
| Thursday | 10:00 to 11:30 |
| Friday | 10:00 to 11:30 |
| Saturday | 10:00 to 11:30 |
| Sunday | 10:00 to 10:30 |
Brunch
Food served
| Monday | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 21:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Saturday | 12:00 to 14:30, 18:00 to 21:00 |
| Sunday | 12:00 to 19:00 |
Lunch and dinner; Sunday lunch runs to 7pm
Cashless. Christmas Day 2026: lunch at 1pm, closing at 4pm.
The details
- Food
- Modern British · Fine dining
- Serving
- Brunch · Lunch · Afternoon tea · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Rooms
- 5
- Features
- Garden or terrace · By the water · Open fire · Restaurant · Private dining · Dogs inside · Dogs in rooms
- Awards
- Two AA Rosettes
- History
- A fifteenth-century coaching inn
- Parking
- No car park of its own; the inn points guests to the free village car park on the High Street or to on-street parking, away from residents' doors.
Photos
The medieval doorway on Church Street Photo: Tilman2007, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 
A bedroom 
Dinner by the fire 
The timber-framed front
Location
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The George Inn 0.1 km away
- The Red Lion, Lacock 0.2 km away
- The Rectory Lacock 0.2 km away
- Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum and Village 0.2 km away
Sights nearby
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St Cyriac's Church, Lacock
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Lacock's Grade I parish church, mostly fifteenth century, with a spire rebuilt in 1604, a vaulted chapel of about 1430 holding William Sharington's Renaissance tomb, and links to Fox Talbot. Open daily in daylight hours.
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Packhorse bridge, Lacock
Sight · Bridge · Lacock
A small humpbacked eighteenth-century bridge of two arches over the Bide Brook below St Cyriac's Church in Lacock, by the lane called Nethercote Hill, marked on the tithe map as Dummer's Bridge. Grade II; free on a footpath.
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Lock-up, Lacock
Sight · Historic building · Lacock
Lacock's village lock-up on East Street: a late eighteenth-century stone cell with a domed roof and ball finial, no windows and a studded door, where drunks and offenders were held overnight. Joined to the tithe barn. Grade II.
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Tithe barn, Lacock
Sight · Historic building · Lacock
Lacock Abbey's fourteenth-century barn on East Street: eight bays of raised cruck trusses on stone blocks, a beaten earth floor and carpenters' protective marks. Grade I, owned by the National Trust, with the village lock-up at its north end.