Brighton pubs on CAMRA's inventory of historic interiors

Map of 12 locations in Brighton, England

CAMRA's National Inventory grades what survives inside a pub, not what the frontage looks like: counters, bar backs, ceilings, screens, the room divisions that most refurbishments remove. Brighton holds an unusual concentration of them, several within a few minutes' walk in the Lanes and North Laine, and the grades run from three stars for outstanding national importance down to one star, which can rest on a single surviving counter. A few now trade under names the inventory has not caught up with, so the fabric is the thing to look for rather than the sign.

Places in this collection

  • The Basketmakers Arms — Dating from 1848 on the corner of Gloucester Road and Cheltenham Place, altered over the years but keeping enough interior fabric for a one…
  • Rook Taproom — Twenty-two taps in a one-star interior, which makes it the newest trading name on this list attached to some of the oldest fabric. The addr…
  • The Islingword Inn — A three-storey corner local above the Queen's Park slope, well east of the tourist pubs, with a pool table in the bar and burgers from the…
  • The Brighton Tavern — Two former shop units at the Gloucester Road end of North Laine knocked into one pub, carrying a one-star grade for its surviving interior.…
  • King & Queen — Listed by CAMRA at three stars for outstanding national historic importance, the highest grade on the inventory and the reason to come insi…
  • Prince Albert — One of two Brighton pubs at three stars, outstanding national historic importance, in a protected building dating from around 1840 and reco…
  • The Quadrant — Erected in 1851 on a sloping corner site the building makes full use of, with the counter, ceiling and bar back all noted as surviving feat…
  • The Pump House — A stone fireplace carved with the initials of the building's owner in 1766 sits in a house that has traded as a pub since 1776 and retains…
  • The Marine Tavern — A small two-and-a-half storey pub on Broad Street, a block back from the seafront in Kemptown, and a fixture in Brighton's LGBT venue listi…
  • Victory Inn — A corner house on Duke Street whose green glazed tiling still carries the Tamplins Ales, Wines and Spirits signage from the brewery era. Th…
  • The Cricketers — Rumoured to be the oldest licensed premises in the city, in a building said to date to the late seventeenth century, with an adjacent stone…
  • The Colonnade Bar — Part of the Theatre Royal, with a frontage designed by Charles Clayton of Clayton and Black in 1894 and a bar back of the same period. The…

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