The Trafalgar Tavern

The Trafalgar Tavern is a public house dating to 1830, situated on Park Row and the River Thames.

The front elevation to Park Row is three storeys high and constructed of stucco, with angle pilasters supporting a cornice and parapet. Rusticated quoins define the ground floor. A band runs across the first floor. The left side of this floor is blank, while the centre features four-light windows. The second floor has a wrought iron balcony supported by the roof of a square bay window. A projecting porch with rudimentary paired, square columns and an entablature lies beneath the balcony. To the right are three sash windows on the first and second floors. The roof is a slated mansard with two dormers. A three-light sash window with glazing bars on the ground floor has a recessed panel below.

The River Thames frontage consists of three wide bays, with a three-storey central section and two-storey wings resting on a retaining wall. The stucco façade has a cornice and parapet. The centre bay of the second floor is recessed, and features a two-column Ionic screen supporting an entablature, which rises above the parapet. A wrought iron bow front balcony is present. The first floor has three grouped sash windows with glazing bars, flanked by quasi-Corinthian pilasters that support semicircular decorative panels with large shell motifs. A cast iron bow front balcony sits above a round ground floor bay with a swept lead roof and pierced bargeboards. Five sash windows with glazing bars are in this bay, the second and fifth being very narrow. The side bays have first-floor rounded bows with swept lead roofs featuring pierced bargeboards, each with three large sash windows with delicate glazing bars leading to a rounded balcony with a cast iron rail, supported on curved wood brackets. Three grouped sash windows with glazing bars and wrought iron guards are found on the ground floor.

The interior has been lavishly restored to resemble a style from around 1780 following damage during wartime.

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