The Trafalgar Tavern is a Grade II listed public house at the north end of Park Row, Greenwich, London, on the south bank of the River Thames, east of and adjacent to the Old Royal Naval College.
Built by architect Joseph Kay on the site of a previous tavern and opened in 1837, it operated until 1915, after which the building was used for other purposes, including as a working men's club and residential accommodation.
In 1830 he applied for planning permission to extend The Old George, employing architect Joseph Kay,[2] who sabotaged the owner's application and took over the lucrative site himself.
[1][2] The Trafalgar Tavern was visited by writers including Wilkie Collins, William Thackeray, and Charles Dickens, who drank here with the illustrator of many of his novels, George Cruikshank.
[1][3] It also became well known as the venue for political whitebait dinners for the Liberal party in Victorian times, the last being held in 1885 when the outgoing Cabinet of William Gladstone dined together.
The stuccoed building has cast-iron balconies, canopied bow windows (said to be "inspired by the galleries of Elizabethan man-o'-war ships"[5]) and a recessed loggia to its riverside elevation.