Pub history

The Cliftonville Inn

These single-storey premises partly occupy the site of the long-standing West Hove National School. This Gothic-style two-storey building opened in 1858 ‘for the children of the artisan classes, who inhabited George Street’. The street was named after George Gallard, a local brewer, who rapidly developed the area south of Hove Station during the 1850s. The new suburb became known as Cliftonville, said to have been named after Clifton Cottage, built in c1825.