This pub is one of CAMRA’s Real Heritage Pubs (ie on CAMRA’s National Inventory of Pub Interiors of Outstanding Historic Interest) where the description is as follows: “A real inter-war time-warp now owned by East Anglian brewers Greene King and set in a private, gated-off road close by the Chelsea football ground. It was built in 1896 as the Prince of Wales, changed its name to Bedford Arms about ten years later, and then to Fox & Pheasant in 1965. It was licensed simply as a beer house until as late as 1953. As you enter there is a small lobby with an off-sales hatch to the servery and doors to the public bar (left) and the rather larger saloon bar (right). Everything is quite low-key and what we see is typical of run-of-the-mill pub-fitting between the wars. The servery has glazed areas on each side which house the spirits and glasses, etc. The rear doors and windows have attractive dimpled glass with green bands. All the fittings are from the inter-war refit as are some quite delightful tables and chairs with raked or curved legs. A pity the tiled frontage has been painted over.

History nearby: Note St Mark’s College chapel on the south side of Fulham Road designed by the architect, Edward Blore in 1881 in Romanesque style.”

The Fox & Pheasant featured on the Choosy Cat and the True Sea Dog: Evening Crawl of Fulham and Hammersmith in August 2010, and the Billing and Cooing: Daytime Crawl of Earls Court, West Brompton, Fulham and Hammersmith in October 2013.