 All that remains from the building’s earliest period is the 400-year-old stone floor, and the pub features eighteenth century panelling and a nineteenth century facade.<ref></ref> The pub has a pewter-top bar, and is decorated with many nautical objects.<ref></ref><ref></ref> In former times it was a meeting place for sailors, smugglers, cut-throats and footpads.Sir Hugh Willoughby sailed from here in 1553 in a disastrous attempt to discover the North-East Passage to China.In the 17th century, it became the hostelry of choice of "Hanging" Judge Jeffreys, scourge of the Monmouth Rebellion.