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The Buxton
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Pubs with Rooms in Shoreditch and the East End
Brick Lane, Spitalfields' Georgian streets and Hackney's Mare Street, with three pubs that let rooms above the bar.
Last reviewed October 2026.
Shoreditch and the East End at a glance
We cover 3 pubs with rooms in Shoreditch and the East End. We haven't found a bedroom dog policy for 3. 1 is a gastropub or serious dining pub.
Pub details last checked October 2026.
Spitalfields is the old market district on the City’s eastern edge, and it still looks it: Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Christ Church, completed in 1729, stands at the end of Fournier Street’s Georgian houses, built for Huguenot silk weavers, and Brick Lane runs off to the east with its curry houses and weekend markets. Shoreditch is a short walk north, the Whitechapel Gallery a few minutes east and the Tower of London a walk south, and Aldgate East puts all of it within a couple of minutes of a Tube station.
Two of our three pubs sit right in the middle of that. The Culpeper, on Commercial Street, is named after the 17th-century herbalist Nicholas Culpeper, who lived locally; it has five boutique rooms above the pub, though its rooftop garden is closed until spring 2027 according to the pub’s own site. Round the corner at the foot of Brick Lane, the Buxton takes its name from Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, the 19th-century MP and owner of the Truman brewery; it opened as a bar and hotel in a former Victorian pub, with fifteen compact rooms and a roof terrace.
Further out, the Old Ship is a stock-brick pub of 1877 on Mare Street in Hackney, with a ten-room hotel upstairs and the Hackney Empire just down the road. It is a different part of the East End — Overground rather than Tube — and a good base if you would rather be among Hackney’s own streets than the Brick Lane crowds.
This is the East End of London’s darker legends, and they are best taken with a pinch of salt. The five killings of 1888 usually attributed to Jack the Ripper happened within a short walk of Commercial Street, the case was never solved, and almost every pub in Spitalfields and Whitechapel claims some tie to it; the claims range from a documented sighting of a victim or a suspect to pure ghost-walk patter. Later gangland lore is better recorded: Ronnie Kray shot George Cornell in the Blind Beggar on Whitechapel Road in 1966, and was convicted of it in 1969, though the exact words spoken beforehand differ between accounts. We label each pub’s stories as documented, local legend or disputed, so you can see which is which.
In Shoreditch and the East End
Dog policy, compared
| Pub | Dogs in bedroom | Dogs at dinner | Charge | Verification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Culpeper Shoreditch and the East End | Not confirmed | No dogs in the restaurant | Not confirmed | From published sources |
| The Old Ship Shoreditch and the East End | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | From published sources |
| The Buxton Shoreditch and the East End | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not yet researched |
Food, compared
All of this is from published sources — none of these pubs have been confirmed with us directly yet.
| Pub | Standard | Kitchen | Booking |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Buxton Shoreditch and the East End | Not yet rated | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| The Culpeper Shoreditch and the East End | Gastropub | Every day | Not confirmed |
| The Old Ship Shoreditch and the East End | Pub grub | Every day | Not confirmed |
Questions people ask about Shoreditch and the East End
- What is the nearest Tube to pubs with rooms in the East End?
- For the Culpeper and the Buxton it is Aldgate East (District and Hammersmith & City lines), about 2 minutes' walk by our walking-route estimate. Shoreditch High Street (London Overground) is roughly 12 to 15 minutes away and Liverpool Street (Central, Elizabeth and other lines) about 17 to 19. The Old Ship in Hackney has no Tube nearby; its station is Hackney Central on the London Overground, about 5 minutes' walk.
- Will a room above an East End pub be noisy?
- Possibly, and the pubs here are real, busy ones. Booking.com guests mention evening noise from the pub below the Culpeper, and weekend street noise at the Buxton, where one reviewer says the rooms aren't double glazed. The Old Ship's own hours have the bar open until 1am on Fridays and Saturdays, with the rooms upstairs. We haven't stayed at any of the three, so we can't promise quiet. Ask for a room away from the bar and the street, and book early for weekends.
- What counts as a "pub with rooms" here, and what is nearby?
- A bar you could walk into for a pint, with bedrooms attached. The Culpeper (five rooms) and the Old Ship (ten) are working pubs with a hotel upstairs. The Buxton (fifteen rooms) is a wine bar and hotel in a former Victorian pub — walk-in only downstairs — so it sits at the bar-with-rooms end of the range. On foot from Aldgate East you have Brick Lane, Spitalfields Market, the Whitechapel Gallery and, a little further, the Tower of London. Another pub with rooms near Liverpool Street is listed under The City and Smithfield.