The Trafalgar Tavern

The Trafalgar Tavern, Park Row, SE10

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1078950
Date first listed:
08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:
The Trafalgar Tavern
Statutory Address:
The Trafalgar Tavern, Park Row, SE10
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1078950
Date first listed:
08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:
The Trafalgar Tavern
Statutory Address 1:
The Trafalgar Tavern, Park Row, SE10

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
The Trafalgar Tavern, Park Row, SE10

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Greenwich (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 38670 78067

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 April 2023 to update the group value statement and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 3878
15/G98

PARK ROW SE10 (East Side)
The Trafalgar Tavern

GV
II

1830. 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

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
200471
Legacy System:
LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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