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Built / licensed: 1869. Reconstructed in the 1930s, c.1970.

Location: Corner of present-day High St and Studley Park Road.

Delicensed: N/A

Status of building: Existing hotel 

Other names: Hotel Kew (from c.2006)

Heritage Reviews / Conservation studies: City of Boroondara - Thematic Environmental History (March 2012) pp. 93, 106, 109.

MMBW Maps: Detail plan 1580, 1903, detail plan 1295, 1904.

Comments: The Clifton hotel was located on Thomas Stevenson's "Clifton" Estate, from which it took its name. In the 1870s, Alfred Fuller established the Kew Brewery adjacent to the Clifton Hotel.

Clifton Hotel - 1920s	Clifton Hill 1964.

It was renovated into an Art Deco style hotel in the 1930s, and then again renovated c.1970, after which it achieved notoriety as an adult entertainment venue. In 2006, it was purchased by new owners, and refurbished as the Hotel Kew.

Licensees:

1868 - Samson Minchinton

Jan 1871 - Mrs Minchinton

Jan 1873 - William J. Cooze

1875 - John Breheny

1876 - E. E. Breheny

1877 - Maria Greenfield

1878 - Arthur S. Dennis

1879 - Mrs Maria Denis

1880/87 - Henry Madden

1888 - John Malone

1889/91 - J. Paterson

1895 - H. Glynn

1902-1919 - M. F. O'Donnell

1920 - William Clancy

1926 - Josephine Collier

1927 - William H. Memmott

1933 - Robert Grimster

1934 - Esther May Ivey

1935-1951 - John Bernard Cronan

1952 - John Hardwood McConkey

1953 - Eileen Mary Ryan