The WhatPub entry is here: WhatPub/Gun

This pub is a grade II listed building and the listing description is as follows: “C19 facade to earlier building. Street facade of painted brick with rusticated quoins. Heavy stuccoed eaves cornice with panelled frieze below. Sign board above cornice. Roof not visible. 2 storeys with 1 storey extension to north:- of 2 windows width. Main facade also 2 windows, those of 1st floor, sashes with segmental arched heads and keystones. Large sills with cast iron window box guards. Above the ground floor, cornice and frieze carried over 1 storey extension. Ground floor facade, panelled wood with some tiling and painted brickwork. Side elevation has painted weatherboarding to upper storey. River elevation of 2 storeys, 4 bays has weatherboarding to upper storey of southern bay, otherwise channelled rendering. Interior has spiral staircase with plank panelling. Coved roof and moulding in upper room, originally more panelling. Said to be associated with Lord Nelson.” Pevsner’s Buildings of England London 5: East says that there has been a pub on this site since the 1710s and that the oldest part (north end single-storey) has been “extended by a stucco-trimmed two-storey part, 1875 by F Frederick Holsworth.”

Inside it is multi-roomed, most of it laid up for dining. One of the rooms is panelled throughout and most rooms have fireplaces. The overall impression of the interior is domestic.

The Gun featured on the Going to the Dogs: Daytime Crawl of the Isle of Dogs, Poplar, Limehouse and Stepney in October 2015.