Historic pubs
London’s Historic Pubs
342 notable pubs, cited from Wikipedia and Wikidata. Never invented.
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- Founded 1520Grade II*
Prospect of Whitby
Tower Hamlets
The Prospect of Whitby is a Grade II* listed pub on Wapping Wall in the East End, reputed to be one of the oldest riverside taverns in London, dating from around 1520.Show moreShow less
3 on recordWikipedia - Founded 1583Grade II
The Grapes
Tower Hamlets
The Grapes is a Grade II listed public house at 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, on the north bank of the Thames; a pub has stood on the site since 1583.Show moreShow less
3 on recordWikipedia - Built 17th centuryGrade II*
The Hoop and Grapes
City of London
The Hoop and Grapes at 47 Aldgate High Street is a Grade II* listed pub, probably built in the late 17th century; it is one of the very few timber-framed buildings in the City of London to survive from that period, standing just beyond where the Great Fire of London was halted in 1666.Show moreShow less
2 on recordWikipedia - Built 17th centuryGrade II
The Seven Stars
Camden
The Seven Stars is a Grade II listed pub at 53 Carey Street behind the Royal Courts of Justice; with 17th-century origins (its frontage bears the date 1602), it is one of the few City-fringe pubs to have survived the Great Fire of London.Show moreShow less
2 on recordWikipedia - Built 1667Grade II
The Tipperary
City of London
The Tipperary is a Grade II listed pub at 66 Fleet Street; the building was built in about 1667, and the wood-panelled pub is widely reputed to be one of London's oldest Irish pubs.Show moreShow less
2 on recordWikipedia - Built 18th century
The Dickens Inn
Tower Hamlets
The Dickens Inn at St Katharine Docks occupies an 18th-century timber-framed former warehouse; when the docks were redeveloped in the 1970s the structure was moved bodily to its present site and reopened as a three-storey balconied inn.Show moreShow less
1 on recorddickensinn.co.uk - Founded 18th centuryGrade II
The Nellie Dean
Westminster
The Nellie Dean of Soho is a Grade II listed pub at 89 Dean Street, Soho; the present building dates from 1900 and there has been a pub on the site since the 18th century.Show moreShow less
1 on recordCAMRA - Built 18th centuryGrade II
The Perseverance
Camden
The Perseverance at 63 Lamb's Conduit Street, Bloomsbury, is a Grade II listed building of early-18th-century origin, refronted in the early 19th century; it traded for years as The Sun before taking its current name.Show moreShow less
2 on recordWikipedia - Built 18th century
Upper Flask
Camden
18th-century tavern in HampsteadShow moreShow less
1 on recordWikipedia - Founded 1736
The Crown & Two Chairmen
Westminster
The Crown & Two Chairmen at 31-32 Dean Street, Soho, has had a pub on the site since 1736; the present building was rebuilt in 1929 and the name is said to recall two sedan-chair men who drank here while Queen Anne sat for a portrait opposite.Show moreShow less
1 on recordCAMRA - Built 19th century
The Pride of Spitalfields
Tower Hamlets
The Pride of Spitalfields at 3 Heneage Street, just off Brick Lane in the East End, is a mid-19th-century pub formerly known as the Romford Arms; it sits in the old Huguenot heartland of Spitalfields and was named CAMRA's East London Pub of the Year in 2013.Show moreShow less
2 on recordWikipedia - Built 19th centuryGrade II
The Star Tavern
Westminster
The Star Tavern is a Grade II listed pub at 6 Belgrave Mews West, Belgravia, of early-to-mid-19th-century origin; in the 1950s and 1960s it drew both high society and the London underworld, and it is reputed to be where the 1963 Great Train Robbery was planned.Show moreShow less
2 on recordWikipedia - Built 1846
The Bulls Head
Richmond upon Thames
The Bull's Head at 373 Lonsdale Road, Barnes, is a riverside Young's pub whose present building dates from 1846; it opened as a jazz venue in 1959 and, hosting leading British and international musicians, became known as the 'suburban Ronnie Scott's'.Show moreShow less
1 on recordWikipedia - Founded 1846
The Queens Arms
Westminster
Victorian Pimlico pub from 1846.Show moreShow less
1 on record - Founded 1849
The Rutland Arms
Hammersmith and Fulham
Pub in London, opened 1849Show moreShow less
1 on recordWikipedia - Built 1850Grade II
The Rugby Tavern
Camden
The Rugby Tavern on the corner of Great James Street and Rugby Street, Bloomsbury, is a Grade II listed pub dating from about 1850, built on land that forms part of the Rugby (School) Estate.Show moreShow less
1 on recordWhatPub - Built 1855Grade II
Museum Tavern
Camden
The Museum Tavern is a Grade II listed pub at 49 Great Russell Street, opposite the British Museum; the present building was rebuilt around 1855-64 by William Finch Hill, and Karl Marx is traditionally said to have drunk here while working in the nearby Reading Room.Show moreShow less
2 on recordWikipedia - Built 1875Grade II*
The Blackfriar
City of London
The Black Friar is a Grade II* listed pub at 174 Queen Victoria Street, Blackfriars, built about 1875 on the site of a medieval Dominican (Black Friars) friary and remodelled around 1905 by the architect Herbert Fuller-Clark; it is famous for its Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau interior of marble, mosaic and bronze reliefs of jovial friars.Show moreShow less
2 on recordWikipedia - Built 1886Grade II
The Old Bank of England
Westminster
The Old Bank of England is a Grade II listed pub at 194 Fleet Street, built in 1886 by Sir Arthur Blomfield; it housed the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England from 1888 to 1975 before becoming a pub in 1994.Show moreShow less
2 on recordWikipedia - Built 1888Grade II
The Audley
Westminster
The Audley at 41-43 Mount Street, Mayfair, is a Grade II listed pub built about 1888 to designs by the architect Thomas Verity; a grand late-Victorian building of red brick and pink terracotta, it was rebuilt on the Grosvenor (Duke of Westminster) estate and retains fine mahogany panelling and a carved bar-back.Show moreShow less
1 on recordCAMRA - Built 1897Grade II
The Dog & Duck
Westminster
The Dog and Duck at 18 Bateman Street, Soho, is a Grade II listed pub; the current building dates from 1897 and its upstairs dining room is named after the writer George Orwell, who was a regular.Show moreShow less
2 on recordWikipedia - Built 1899Grade II
Salisbury
Westminster
The Salisbury at 90 St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden, is a Grade II listed pub built about 1899; its lavish late-Victorian interior of etched and polished glass, mahogany and Art Nouveau candelabra is listed on CAMRA's National Inventory as a historic pub interior of national importance.Show moreShow less
2 on recordWikipedia - Built 1901
Ye Olde Watling
City of London
Ye Olde Watling stands at 29 Watling Street, on the line of the old Roman road of the same name, close to St Paul's Cathedral; the timber-framed pub is traditionally said to have been rebuilt for Sir Christopher Wren's workmen after the Great Fire of London, and its present old-world interior largely dates from a sympathetic refit of about 1901.Show moreShow less
1 on recordCAMRA - Built 1903Grade II
The Coal Hole
Westminster
The Coal Hole is a Grade II listed pub at 91 Strand, part of the Savoy Court development, built in 1903-04 to the design of architect T. E. Collcutt.Show moreShow less
2 on recordWikipedia