Newham’s oldest secular building to be saved as Spotted Dog pub restoration begins

An east London building that may have been King Henry VIII’s hunting lodge, and is now the oldest secular building in Newham, is about to be restored after decades of ruin.Known as the Spotted Dog pub, it is claimed to have been a hunting lodge leased to King Henry’s Master of the Hounds, who was allowed to keep the income from selling refreshments to people passing through. That naturally led to it eventually becoming an Inn, and in 1921, Leopold Wagner wrote that until WWI, the Spo