Busy and friendly locals pub with long-standing landlord, located opposite Swanscombe Leisure Centre and Heritage Park. Known locally as the “Top House” originally to distinguish it from the “Middle House” (North Kent Arms, closed 1970) and the “Bottom House” (Coopers Arms, closed 1950) further down Craylands Lane. It hosts its own football club “Top House FC”, formed in 1975 and is the home to Swanscombe United FC, founded in 1892, both now sadly defunct. The pub has a lovely garden with well tended flowers and shrubs, a tidy lawn and two separate covered smoking shelters. The pub opened in 1869 converted from two cottages.