Like the Old Red Lion and the Enterprise, this pub is neither on CAMRA’s Regional or National Inventory and is not a listed building but it is a characterful passageway pub retaining leaded windows, characteristic of the inter-war Youngers pubs designed by Quilter. The ceiling with its Tudor roses is also notable.

The Ship Tavern featured on the Snobs' Night Out on the Tiles: Evening Crawl of Bloomsbury and Holborn in April 2015.