Like the Angel, the Town of Ramsgate and the Captain Kidd this Taylor Walker pub is a grade II listed building and the listing description is as follows: “Original building said to be circa 1520 but north-west, or front, elevation refaced early C19. Yellow brick, roof not visible. 3 storeys, 3 windows. Architraves to recessed sashes with glazing bars. return or south-west elevation in imitation stone now painted white. Flush frame window. River elevation has hooded balcony with needled balustrade. Interior much altered but some C18 dado panelling on 1st floor. Included principally for historic associations and as a surviving riverside inn. The Prospect of Whitby Public House, Pelican Stairs and the London Hydraulic Power Company's Pumping Station form a group”. The pub’s current name is that of a Tyne collier that used to berth next to the pub. According to the pub’s publicity flyer it “has featured briefly in an episode of Only Fools and Horses and Minder and is also in a scene in the 1956 film D-Day the sixth of June starring Robert Taylor and Richard Todd.” In Buildings of England Pevsner describes the pub as having a “19th-century façade with small-scale Classical features. The oldest obvious feature is some 18th-century panelling, probably not in situ”.

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