Although this pub is not one of London’s Real Heritage Pubs it is a grade II listed building and the listing description is as follows: “Public house. c.1830. Stucco, roof of slate. Three storeys over basement, five windows. Ground floor decorated with banded rustication. Two flat-arched entrances at either end of facade, one narrower to centre; two flat-arched windows between them, all with engraved glass of uncertain date and origin; fascia with console stops at either end with lion heads; all windows flat-arched, those to the first floor of piano nobile proportions with pilasters and cornice and round-arched archivolts, the tympana left plain; the two outer windows are broader and flanked by giant Doric pilasters, the three inner windows also flanked by such pilasters, and there are pilasters to the angles of this front, all carried up to a moulded parapet, for the second floor is slightly set back, with plain eared architraves to the windows; eaves cornice; hipped roof; corniced side stacks. The interior contains a bar front and cornice to the front room both of which may have been in the pub in the C19.”

The Drapers Arms featured on the Rows, Squares and Terraces: Evening Crawl of Islington in August 2011.