Ferry House

About Ferry House

The oldest licensed pub on the Isle of Dogs, trading since 1722 beside the site of the ferry crossing to Greenwich that operated before the Greenwich foot tunnel opened in 1902.

Licensed since 1722, the Ferry House is generally reckoned to be the oldest surviving pub on the Isle of Dogs, and it takes its name from the passenger ferry that once ran from this exact spot across the Thames to Greenwich, a service that operated for the better part of two centuries before it was made largely redundant by the opening of the Greenwich foot tunnel in 1902. Its position at the southern tip of the Isle of Dogs peninsula, well away from the towers of Canary Wharf a short walk to the north, gives it a genuinely riverside village feel, with wide Thames views across to the Old Royal Naval College and the Greenwich waterfront. The pub has traded through the peninsula's transformation from working docklands to financial district without losing its traditional character, remaining a proper local for the Island Gardens and Cubitt Town streets around it rather than reinventing itself to chase Canary Wharf's office trade.