Like the Culpeper, this pub is neither a listed building nor on CAMRA’s Inventory but it is locally listed and the description is as follows: “The Princess of Prussia is a handsome public house, built around 1880 featuring particularly distinctive glazed tile decoration, much of it revealed recently following the removal of later signboards. It is one of the many Truman’s public houses in the Borough. This building is locally listed for its: ƒ Local Character and Distinctiveness The Public House makes a positive contribution to the wider townscape and the setting of neighbouring heritage assets. The building forms an attractive contrast with the superb brick 1930’s former Co-operative Wholesale Society office block and 16 Prescot Street, a grand mid-19th Century brick palazzo (both listed at Grade II). ƒ Architectural Significance The whole frontage effectively acts as an advertisement for the products of Truman’s Brewery. ‘TRUMANS STOUT’ ‘MILD ALES’ and ‘PORTER’ are advertised above the door and bay window with ‘BURTON BREWED PALE & OLD ALES’ above the first floor windows. The full name of the Brewery TRUMAN HANBURY & BUXTON is above the second floor windows with the name of the pub above the attic window. The ground floor features a large canted bay with bright green tiles beneath the window. Green tiles are also used around all of the upper floor windows and to form the decorative details around the side and top of the dormer window. The building is mentioned in Pevsner’s East London - ‘Squeezed in next to the Cooperative Bank, is the Princess of Prussia, a c.1880s public house. Neat and narrow with a projecting bay, coloured glazed dressings and tablet gable with broken scrolled pediment.’ ƒ Social Significance The pub is named after Victoria, the eldest child of Queen Victoria who married Prince Frederick of Prussia in 1858.”

The WhatPub link is here: WhatPub/Princess of Prussia

The Princess of Prussia featured on the The Truman Show: Evening Tour of Former Truman's Pubs in Spitalfields and Whitechapel in April 2024.