Like Rose’s, this pub is neither a listed building nor one of London’s Real Heritage Pubs but it is in CAMRA’s 2013 Good Beer Guide and the road surface of Pelton Road is grade II listed. The listing description is as follows: “The setted road structure in Ballast Quay, Lassell Street and Pelton Road should be designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: It is a rare survival of a mid-Victorian road surface in London, notable for the consistency of its courses of granite setts and the extent of surviving setts. It displays a high quality of workmanship, particularly where the courses change direction where the streets meet. It has an interesting historic context, located just upstream from Granite Wharf where a great portion of the capital's granite setts arrived in London from Guernsey from the 1850s.”

The Pelton Arms appeared in the BBC television programme, Rock and Chips, the prequel to Only Fools and Horses, where it became the “Nag’s Head”. Possibly a former Charringtons pub with remnants of inter-war glazing, it also retains wooden matchboard panelling, a (presumably) inter-war bar counter, and a pleasing divided ceiling. The restrained wooden built-in fire surrounds add to the completeness of the scheme. If you feel like it, you can play bar billiards.

The Pelton Arms featured on the London Pubs Group's pub crawl of Plumstead, Woolwich and Greenwich in February 2013.