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Lost pub · Hayton

The Graham Arms

1771 to about 1974

Built
Dated 1771 on the door lintel
Gone
Closed about 1974
There now
A private house, still called the Graham Arms
Address
West of Gelt Bridge, Greenwell, Hayton
Where exactly
From the listed building record

The third Graham Arms, and the oldest of them. It stands west of Gelt Bridge at Greenwell in Hayton parish, out past Brampton, and it is Grade II listed as list entry 1087552, listed on 28 March 1984. The listing calls it a house, formerly public house and adjoining cottage. It carries its own date. The lintel over the pub door reads 1771, with the initials G. and S. T. That is a marriage stone, the initials of a couple cut into the building they put up, and it makes this the second pub in the archive to be dated that way: the Kings Head on Fisher Street has one too, though that one is indoors and out of reach.

This one is over the front door where anyone can read it. Coursed red sandstone rubble, a graduated slate roof, nineteenth-century yellow brick chimneys. Two storeys and two bays, with the former cottage on the right now knocked into the same property. The old pub door is a six-panel top-glazed one in a chamfered surround under that dated lintel. The name went back and forth. The listing records it as the Gelt Inn around 1900 and notes that the building keeps its later pub name, which is the Graham Arms it is called today.

It closed about 1974. Two of the three Graham Arms went within a couple of years of each other: this one about 1974 and the Graham's Arms at Westlinton between 1972 and 1974. Only the Longtown one is still trading. There is a reason it is listed at all, and it is not the pub. Historic England say it is listed partly for group value with the nearby railway bridge, and that bridge is worth the walk: Gelt Bridge, Grade II star, built by Francis Giles between 1832 and 1835, three large skew arches on two piers, and one of the earliest and largest skew arched bridges in the country.

The pub is protected because of what was put up beside it sixty years after it was built. Two things to add from the listing and the scheme's records. It was called the Gelt Inn around 1900, keeping the Graham Arms name it had taken later, and the scheme's roll of 1920 lists a Graham Arms at How Mill, number 89, How Mill being the station a mile away and the usual way of placing anything in this parish. That is most likely this pub, which would make it state-run from 1916 until the scheme ended.

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What's above is everything on file, and it isn't much. If you drank in it, or your family did, or you've a photograph of it, that's more than the records hold.

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Sources

Location from historicengland.org.uk. That's the building standing over it, not the exact doorway.

Still serving, near where it stood

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