 The pub had a reputation for rowdy behaviour, and it is believed the landlord kept pigs in the basement.The additional two storeys added in the seventeenth century were removed in 1930, due to damage being caused to the foundations.The chapel features colourfully in the historical novel 'Not Just a Whore', by local St Ives resident K M Warwick, where it is described as a fictitious "Bawdy House" (brothel).