The Trafalgar Tavern

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TQ 3878 15/G98

PARK ROW SE10 (East Side) The Trafalgar Tavern

GV II

1. Front to Park Row three storeys. Stucco, with angle pilasters supporting cornice and parapet and resting on rusticated ground floor quoins. First floor band. Left side of this floor blank. Four-light windows in centre, the second floor with wrought iron balcony resting on roof of square bay first floor window. This gives onto balcony with wrought iron rail above projecting porch with rudimentary paired, square columns and entablature. At right side three sash windows with glazing oars on first and second floors, slated mansard with two dormers above. Three-light ground floor sash window with glazing bars has recessed panel below.

River front three wide bays, three-storey centre and two-storey sides, resting on retaining wall to river below. Stucco with cornice and parapet. Second floor centre bay recessed, with two-column Ionic screen supporting entablature at higher level than parapet. Wrought iron bow front balcony, On first floor three grouped sash windows with glazing bars are flanked by quasi-Corinthian pilasters which support semicircular decorative panels with large, shell motifs. Cast iron bow front balcony resting on round ground floor bay with swept lead roof and pierced bargeboards. Five sash windows with glazing bars in this bay, the second and fifth very narrow. The side bays have first floor rounded bows under swept, lead roofs with pierced bargeboards. Three large, sash windows, with delicate glazing bars, in each, giving on to rounded balcony, with cast iron rail, supported on curved wood brackets. Three grouped sash windows, with glazing bars and wrought iron guards, to ground floor. Inside lavishly restored in the style of 1780, after war damage.

The Trafalgar Tavern forms a group with the Former Curlew Rowing Club, Crane Street.

Listing NGR: TQ3867078067