This pub is a revival because it closed in 2013 and developers wanted to convert it to a mansion but it was saved and reopened in May 2017. It has been designated as an Asset of Community Value. Although it is not a listed building, it used to be on CAMRA’s London Regional Inventory and the description was as follows: “Looking like a detached house, with front and rear gardens, in a residential street. Curious passage-like bar between the frontage and the servery. Plain panelled counter base with glazed screenwork above. On the opposite side of the servery the counter supports a most fantastic screen with triple opening and extraordinarily florid High Victorian detail. It is improbably said to have come from a chapel; more likely to have been the bar-back in another public house.” You may wish to compare this with the current interior.

CAMRA website link: CAMRA/Clifton

The Clifton featured on the Revivals and Survivals: Daytime Crawl of Willesden Green, Cricklewood, Brondesbury, Kilburn and St John's Wood on 23 February 2019, and the Daytime Crawl of NW London and Maida Vale in October 2006.