The Halfway House

Gone

Closed by the Board, 1917

There now

A house, Hillfield House

Address

Scaleby

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4609064523, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential (Hillfield House).

At Scaleby, north-east of the city, also known as the Fighting Cocks, and closed by the Board in 1917. The building is a house called Hillfield House. In July 1916 it was still the Fighting Cocks, Scaleby, on the Cumberland News's list of the twenty-four licensed houses in the Longtown division, next to the Joiners' Arms at Barclose, so that was the name it closed under. James Hogg kept the Fighting Cocks Inn, Halfway House, in 1886, when he was on the police black list and the renewal of his licence was put off for a month.

Sources

• 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
• The Cumberland News, 8 July 1916: 'First State tavern: to be opened by Lord Lonsdale', with the list of licensed houses in the Cumberland Ward and Longtown divisions (via newspapers.com)
• Carlisle Patriot, 27 August 1886, p. 6: 'Brewster sessions: Longtown' (via British Newspaper Archive)

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