The Sportsman

Gone

Closed 2013 and put up for sale

There now

Sportsman House, a private house, by 2018

Address

Laversdale, Irthington

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY4759962573, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential (Sportsman House).

At Laversdale, near Irthington and the airport. It started life as the Dog & Gun in the early nineteenth century and swapped between that name and the Sportsman more than once, settling on the Sportsman for good in 1978. It closed in 2013 and was put up for sale. Laversdale had a second pub as well. Not the Sportsman in Carlisle. Historic England's gazetteer lists it, with a question mark, among the houses the Board took over in 1916, and by 2018 it was a private house called Sportsman House. In August 1886 the licence of the Dog and Gun Inn, Laversdale, passed from Jane Queen to Thomas James Brown, formerly a landscape gardener with Messrs Clark of Carlisle.

Sources

• Mike Tuer, "Pubs of Carlisle" Day 182, Old Photos of Carlisle and Surrounding Area (Facebook)
• 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
• Carlisle Patriot, 27 August 1886, p. 6: 'Brewster sessions: Brampton' (via British Newspaper Archive)

Also lost in Laversdale

• The Bay Horse

Still serving, near where it stood

• The Sally

  Irthington
  2.4 kmaway

• The Fleece at Ruleholme

  Irthington
  3.0 kmaway

• The Stag Inn

  Crosby-on-Eden
  4.2 kmaway

• The Black Lion

  Hethersgill
  4.6 kmaway