The Grapes Hotel

Built

Unknown

Gone

Some time after 1891, the year its licence was challenged

There now

Unknown

Address

Market Place end of Scotch Street (later 79 Scotch Street; also recorded at 1 English Street)

Where exactly

Placed on Scotch Street from the position of pubs still standing there. Somewhere on this street, not this doorway

One of Carlisle's oldest recorded inns, kept by a Mrs Pringle by the 1790s and trading continuously through the 19th century under a run of named licensees — Benjamin Holmes from around 1801, then a Mr Armstrong, then William Bell from the 1850s, then George Dalston. An 1882 trade-directory advertisement billed it as the 'oldest established hotel in Carlisle,' a direct rival to the claim this site's own Kings Head makes today.

Its cellar has genuine Roman archaeology behind it: an altar carved with a relief of Mercury was found underneath the building in 1787, and a separate inscribed stone turned up seven feet down while digging the cellar — both are now in Tullie House Museum. Its final years look troubled: in September 1891 the magistrates moved to withdraw its licence, and the appeal against that decision is the last clear record found of it trading.

Source

• Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "G" page

Also lost on Scotch Street

• The Blue Bell Hotel
• The Globe
• The Duke's Head
• The Old Turks Head
• Black Bull, Scotch Street
• The Old Bush Inn
• The Three Cannons
• The Plume of Feathers
• The Green Dragon
• Ismay's Vaults

Still serving, near where it stood

• Brewed Awakenings

  City Centre
  90 maway

• The Old Bank

  City Centre
  130 maway

• The Kings Head

  City Centre
  140 maway

• Carlisle RAOB Club (the Buffs)

  City Centre
  140 maway