Lost pub · Carleton Road
Green Bank
- Built
- Redfern-built 1931, replacing the older Carleton Inn on the same site
- Gone
- Rebranded, November 2016
- There now
- The Nosey Cow Inn
- Where exactly
- Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4277752902, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: public house (Green Bank).
Not demolished, refurbished, and not the site's first rebuild either. The scheme's first Green Bank came in 1920. The Board's own report for that year describes the conversion: the village had a single-storey four-roomed cottage with a licence, and a small farm a mile along the road with another; the farm licence was given up, and a house, cottage and barn in the village were made into 'a roomy inn, with bar, smoke room and tea room', after which the old inn closed. Historic England's survey has a house and cottage of that name, bought in 1920 and fitted out as a tea room, public bar and smoking room to replace the Golden Fleece and the inadequate Blue Bell.
A decade later the council wanted Carleton Road widened, so Redfern drew a replacement on 28 August 1930, one of his later New Model Inns. The scheme's annual report for 1931 has the rebuilt house set back 'by arrangement with the Cumberland County Council' to widen the main Carlisle-Penrith road. It was completed on 1 September 1931 behind and replacing the older Carleton Inn, which was demolished as the new building went up.
It kept an older wing, perhaps once a pair of cottages, for the mixed and men's smoking rooms, and put the public bar in a new block, with table service from a central servery. It is built of random squared stone to match its nineteenth-century neighbours and is easily taken for an older building, which Historic England thought unusual for Redfern, who generally liked his pubs to stand out.
The 1972 sale particulars list a public bar, two smoking rooms, a cellar and a four-bedroom manager's flat, and the scheme sold it to Scottish & Newcastle on 17 April 1973. It kept the Greenbank name through the rest of the century, running as a jazz venue by the late 1990s: a new jazz headquarters in 1997, a £20,000 facelift the same year, and a write-up the year after as a place of real note. It was extensively done up again and reopened as the Nosey Cow in November 2016. So it belongs here as a lost name rather than a lost building: the pub is still there and still serving as the Nosey Cow.
Sources 8
- Basil Oliver, The Renaissance of the English Public House, p69
- Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "G" page
- CAMRA
- CARLISLE_PUBS_Ver_3.xls (Mike Tuer's pub database)
- Historic England, Countering the 'deadliest of foes': public houses of the Central Control Board and the State Management Scheme, 1916-73 (Clare Howard, Research Report 89-2018): Appendix C, gazetteer of scheme premises
- Historic England, Countering the 'deadliest of foes': public houses of the Central Control Board and the State Management Scheme, 1916-73 (Clare Howard, Research Report 89-2018): Appendix B, summaries of key State Management public houses
- The State Management Story documents: State Management Districts annual report, year to 31 March 1931
- The State Management Story documents: General Manager's report to the Board for 1920 (Cmd. 1252)
2 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map
Still serving, near where it stood
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