The Lord Brougham

Gone

Closed 1 October 1932, superseded by the Crescent Inn

There now

The building survives, by Historic England's gazetteer: it was Dempseys in 2018, opposite the Andalusian

Address

11-13 Henry Street (now Warwick Road)

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4032455760, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: public house (Dempsey’s Bar).

The pub Redfern's most extravagant building was built to replace. It had stood at the corner of Warwick Road and Henry Street since 1837, named for Henry Brougham, the Westmorland-born Lord Chancellor, whose family seat was Brougham Hall near Penrith. The Cumberland News column of 3 May 1991 puts it on the eastern corner of Crosby Street, on property later occupied by Mison's television and hi-fi shop, and says the directories gave its address as Henry Street, which is what the top of Warwick Road was then called: 8 Henry Street in 1847, and 11 and 13 from the 1880s.

The premises ran from Henry Street along Crosby Street to Crosby Court. It was one of two Lord Broughams in the city in the nineteenth century; the other stood in Pack Horse Lane, off English Street, and is in the directories from 1834 to 1847.

Kelly's directory of 1894 has Edward Foster at 13 Henry Street. At the city Brewster Sessions in September 1896 its licence renewal was applied for in the name of a licensee that reads, in a smudged copy, as Edward Forster, and the licence was not confirmed until the adjourned sessions later that month.

By the sessions of the following year the Carlisle Patriot reported that the house had been enlarged by taking in a neighbouring small shop, once a veterinary surgeon's and then a wholesale wine office, and that it was much improved and better suited to the business. William Bewley, also a wine merchant in Barton's Yard, kept it in 1897, and the Lonsdales, Isaac and then Mary Jane, from 1906 to 1914. About 1900 the General Post Office stood round the corner in Lowther Street, in the building that became the Gretna Tavern.

It was a Carlisle Old Brewery house when the scheme acquired it in August 1916. The scheme's annual report for 1930 gives the reasoning for what followed. It was decided to replace the Lord Brougham, which occupied a central position near the General Post Office, with a modern pub on a site close by, partly as a substitute for the Carlisle Arms, which was about to close for a street improvement. The next year's report, to March 1931, records that 'a commencement was made with the erection of the new premises in Warwick Road which are to replace the Lord Brougham', so building began in 1930-31.

When the Crescent Inn went up across the road in 1932, all terracotta and Moorish balcony, it was to take over the Lord Brougham's trade, and that is the scheme's standard move: supersede the old house, open an improved one, close the original. The Lord Brougham closed on 1 October 1932; the Cumberland News of that day, describing it as one of the city's oldest inns, reported that it would shut as the Crescent opened on the Monday. The Crescent is still there as the Andalusian.

Historic England's gazetteer tells it slightly differently, with the scheme acquiring it in July 1916 and the pub closing in 1933 once the Crescent had opened. It also records the building as still standing and listed grade II, trading as Dempseys in 2018. If so, the pub the Crescent was built to replace is still across the road from it.

Photograph

Also lost on Warwick Road

• The Petteril Bridge Inn
• No 15 Gin Bar
• Suede

50 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Halston

  City Centre
  40 maway

• The Andalusian

  City Centre
  50 maway

• Yellowjacket

  City Centre
  50 maway

• Gibby's

  City Centre
  50 maway