The Hung Drawn and Quartered

Named after the execution method historically performed at nearby Tower Hill, where everyone from the Archbishop of Canterbury (1381) to Lord Lovat (1747, the last public execution on the site) lost their heads. The building was a bank, and before that part of Christ's Hospital, a school founded in 1552. It's a Fuller's Ale & Pie pub now, Grade II listed, with high ceilings, wood panelling, and portraits of monarchs on the walls. Views toward the Tower of London if you can still focus.