Ye Olde Cock Tavern

Ye Olde Cock Tavern is a Grade II listed public house at 22 Fleet Street, London EC4.[1] It is part of the Taylor Walker Pubs group.

Pub Sign - Ye Olde Cock Tavern, London, UK
Ye Olde Cock Tavern

Originally built before the 17th century, it was rebuilt, including the interior (which is thought to include work by carver Grinling Gibbons),[2] on the other side of the road in the 1880s when a branch of the Bank of England was built where it stood.[2][3] However, in the 1990s a fire broke out and destroyed many of the original ornaments, and the building has since gone through a restoration using photographs.[2]

It was frequented by Samuel Pepys, Alfred Tennyson and Charles Dickens.[4]

References
  1. Historic England, "Ye Olde Cock Tavern (1192621)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 1 October 2014
  2. Pubs.Com - Olde Cock Tavern Info (Accessed 31 March 2008)
  3. All in London - Olde Cock Tavern Info (Accessed 31 March 2008)
  4. Evans. J., The Book of Beer Knowledge, ISBN 1-85249-198-1


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