Clifton Down Station Steam Tavern Public House And Attached Screen Walls

Clifton Down Station is a railway station that has been converted into a public house, known as the Steam Tavern. It opened in 1874 and underwent conversion in the 1970s. The building is constructed from squared Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, featuring lateral and ridge stacks, and a tiled hipped roof. It is designed in the Tudor Gothic Revival style and has a single-depth plan. The structure is two storeys high and has a three-window range, with single-storey side blocks on either side.

The central booking office showcases rock-faced quoins, an impost band, and a sill band, along with a corbel table beneath a weathered parapet. It features three 2-centre arches with splayed reveals and 20th-century glazing and door, as well as large second-floor cross windows with trefoil arches in flat heads. The roof is adorned with lead finials. Each end of the building has a gabled block that includes five single and paired flat-headed windows with glazing bars. The eastern block has a parapeted end section, while the western block features a rounded corner beneath a moulded, corbelled corner.

The rear elevation is divided into rectangular recessed bays with corbel tables and has blocked openings at the backs of the station blocks. The interior has been converted for use as a public house. A subsidiary feature includes a screen wall that extends from the station to the Whiteladies Road bridge, although this is not included in the listing. Originally built as the terminus of the Clifton Extension Railway, it became a through station with the opening of the Clifton Down tunnel in 1885. The station once had attractive glazed canopies on cast-iron posts that extended on both sides, supported by the screen walls.