Princess of Prussia
A Truman's rebuild from 1913 with a garden behind it, which is the rare thing on Prescot Street.1
Why go
It opened as a beer house in 1859, next door to the Whitechapel County Court, named for Queen Victoria's eldest daughter after her 1858 marriage to Prince Frederick William of Prussia. Truman, Hanbury & Co owned it by the 1890s and put up the current building in 1913, to a design CAMRA's branch calls typical of the brewery's architect Edward Sewell.1
Shepherd Neame has held it since 2005 and Wellman Taverns runs it. Two rooms, and the garden is at the back.1
What locals & experts say
- CAMRA's East London & City branch surveyed and updated the record on 2 August 2026. It describes the building and the ownership.1
- No cask list and no account of the kitchen exist, so neither is described.
Good to know
- Where: 15 Prescot Street E1 8AZ. Tower Hill and Aldgate are both a few minutes.
- Garden: at the rear, and it is the reason to pick this over the surrounding City pubs in summer.
- Booking: walk in.
- Layout: two rooms. The ground-floor bar was originally divided, with the counter in the south-west corner.1
Verdict
listed — A beer house opened in 1859 next door to the Whitechapel County Court and rebuilt in 1913 by Truman, Hanbury & Co to Edward Sewell's design, which is why it looks the way it does on a street that mostly does not. Two rooms and a garden at the back, which in this stretch of Aldgate is the useful fact. Shepherd Neame has owned it since 2005 and Wellman Taverns runs it. It sits at the bottom of the ladder on evidence rather than on quality: no source in reach describes the beer, the kitchen or a single thing anybody ate here.