The George Inn

Southwark was full of coaching inns for the stagecoaches heading south, and this one was rebuilt in 1677 after a fire. It is the last galleried coaching inn left in London; only one of the three wings that surrounded the yard survives.

Dickens knew it well and mentions it in «Little Dorrit». The National Trust has owned it since 1937, though it runs as a normal pub, with dark wood rooms, fireplaces and tables in the cobbled yard.