The pub dates from 1846 and is grade II listed with Historic England along with the whole of the terrace of numbers 1 to 5 Warwick Place on the north side of the street.

[2] Among the architectural details mentioned by Historic England in their listing are the scrolled iron lamp and sign brackets for the pub.

[2] Brian Spiller speculates in his book Victorian Public Houses that the pub's "discreet location in a cul-de-sac may have made it a refuge for domestic servants from the neighbouring stucco villas and terraces".

[8] Music entrepreneur Richard Branson was a regular at the pub in the 1970s, early in his career when his office was a barge on the Grand Union Canal about 100m away.

Michael Caborn-Waterfield, known for setting up the first Ann Summers sex shop in 1970, was also a customer,[9] as was the musician Rick Wakeman in the 1980s when he lived in nearby Elgin Mansions.