This building was converted from a workshop to a pub by Sam Smiths in 1988-9. Like the Angel and the Town of Ramsgate it is a grade II listed building and the listing description is as follows: “Early C19 pair of 3 storey, 3 bay houses. Built of stock brick, No 108 with rather broader elevation. Parapet with stone coping. Mansard slate roof, with 2 dormers, to No 110, but replaced by flat roof on No 108. The latter has 2 broad first floor windows (formerly tripartite sashes) flanking blind narrower central window; the second floor has 3 standard sized windows; all have flat gauged arches and stuccoed reveals. Wood cornice and fascia over remodelled Edwardian office on ground floor, tile faced with central waggon entrance through to yard. Nos 110 has similarly remodelled ground floor but retains two 6 panel doors, the lower door to left with reeded framing and corner roundels to panels. The upper floors retain original thin glazing bar sashes (3 and 5 panes on first floor; 3 and 4 panes on second floor). The side elevation of No 110 curves round, with an inset bow containing stairlights and blind windows, to the south yard elevation which has tripartite sash windows. To the rear of No 108 and linked across yard is a workshop range extending out to the wharf. Two storeys stock brick, mid C19, with continuous range of first floor Yorkshire casements and RSG over ground floor which has triple groups of Yorkshire lights.” There are brilliant views over the river. In Buildings of England Pevsner describes the building as being “close to the site of Execution Dock where pirates were hanged at lower water mark until 1830. Captain Kidd was executed here in 1701”. You may be lucky enough to see the resident ginger cat.

The Captain Kidd Featured on the Down River: Daytime Crawl of Rotherhithe, Wapping and Limehouse in June 2013.