The Pheasant Inn

Built

Late 18th century houses, a pub by 1865

Gone

2000

There now

Grade II listed, no longer a pub

Address

Church Street

Where exactly

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

Originally a row of three late eighteenth-century houses. It shows on the 1865 Ordnance Survey map as the Silloth Railway Inn, named for the line that opened in August 1856, and was first called the Pheasant in the 1873 directory. The state took it in 1916 and sold it in 1972; it closed in 2000 and spent a while as the Golden Pheasant Chinese restaurant. The building is Grade II listed. Note that the scheme's 1920 roll puts a Pheasant on Queen Street, not Church Street, and the two have not been reconciled.

Not the Pheasant at Cumwhitton, which is still serving. It reopened on 26 May 1917 with no formal ceremony, though the Mayoress performed a more official opening of the reconstructed first floor a few days later, on 31 May. It was one of the seven food taverns the scheme opened in 1917 and 1918, and the contemporary account explains the thinking. It stood opposite a biscuit factory employing large numbers of women, so it was given a cookshop for takeaway trade with its own door on the side street, and upstairs, reached separately and with no way through to the bar, a cafe selling no alcohol at all and a rest room for the factory women.

Sources

• The State Management Story
• The Control of the Drink Trade (Longmans, Green & Co., 1919), pp.216-217

Also lost on Caldewgate

• The Bricklayers Arms
• Queens Head Inn
• Royal Oak
• The Globe Inn
• The Rodney Inn
• The Old Queens Head

Still serving, near where it stood

• Joiners Arms

  Caldewgate
  0 maway

• The Jovial Sailor

  Caldcotes
  240 maway

• Cumbria Indoor Bowls Club

  Denton Holme
  420 maway

• The Milbourne Arms

  Denton Holme
  490 maway