Although it is not one of London’s Real Heritage Pubs, this pub has an old-fashioned intimate interior and some wonderful ceramic tiles in the passageway leading to the entrance. It is a grade II listed building and the listing description is as follows: “Public house. Early C.19 refronting or rebuild of C.17/C.18 house. Stock brick, slate roof. 4 storeys. 4 windows wide plus half window. Wooden pub front with flanking doorways framed by pilasters carrying entablature, the doorways recessed with panelled reveals and rectangular fanlights. Upper floors have recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches. Parapet with coping. The passageway through to the Strand (beneath No. 408) has an Edwardian lining, to walls and ceiling, of polychrome tilework in Art Nouveau style and arched street entrance with inscription "To the Nell Gwynne Tavern Saloon Lounge" in similarly styled lettering.”

The Nell Gwynne Tavern featured on the Oranges Are Not The only Fruit - Have a Banana: Evening Crawl of The Strand and Covent Garden in April 2010.