The Retreat Inn

Gone

Closed August 1916

There now

A house

Address

Cotehill

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4671350323, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential.

Cotehill's second pub, a beerhouse at the start, in Bulmer's directory of 1901. It was an Old Brewery house and the Board closed it in August 1916, in its first weeks, leaving the village to the Greyhound, which stands a few yards off. It was lot 5 in the Board's auction of 3 May 1919: a dwelling house at Cotehill, formerly the Retreat public house, with five bedrooms, a stable, a Dutch barn, a slaughterhouse and a butcher's shop. It was on the Cumberland News's list of July 1916, beside the Greyhound at Cotehill, a few weeks before it closed.

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, 19 April 1919, p. 10: Walter P. Gibbings's notice of the Central Control Board's sale of 3 May 1919 (via newspapers.com)
• 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)

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Greyhound Inn

  Cotehill
  60 maway

• Lowther Arms Inn

  Cumwhinton
  3.1 kmaway

• Plough Inn

  Wreay
  3.4 kmaway

• Border Gate Beefeater

  Carleton
  3.5 kmaway