Lost pub · London Road
The Thorncliffe
- Gone
- Stopped trading as a pub by 1865, when it became Hill Top Cottage
- There now
- A private house, called Carrick Lodge as of 2024
- Address
- Gallows Hill, Harraby
- Where exactly
- On London Road. The exact spot isn't known, so the pin marks the street, not the building.
Started out as the Lancer Public House, also the Lancer Inn, on Gallows Hill, Harraby: trading before 1829 and in the local directories until 1848. Parson and White's directory of 1829 names John Graham at the Lancer, Gallow Hill, and a Carlisle Journal notice of January 1844 offered the Lancer Inn to let. The Apple Tree on Harraby Hill, close by, also traded as the Lancer, from 1829 to 1849, and the two may be one house.
By 1865 it had stopped trading as a pub and become a private house, Hill Top Cottage. By 1898 it was Harraby Lodge, bought that August by a Mr Boustead for £800, and the 1918 electoral register still gives it as Harraby Lodge. In 1911 a Carlisle Journal writer remembered 'the Lancer Inn (which stood on Gallows Hill)' among the city's extinct old inns. It took the name Thorncliffe by 1950, and as of 2024 is known as Carrick Lodge.
Sources 5
- Carlisle Encyclopaedia, "T" page
- Denis Perriam, Harraby, p20
- CARLISLE_PUBS_Ver_3.xls (Mike Tuer's pub database)
- Carlisle Patriot, 25 September 1891, p. 6: 'Public houses in Carlisle sixty years ago', reprinting the 1829 Parson and White directory list (via British Newspaper Archive)
- Carlisle Journal, 5 December 1911, p. 4: 'Old inns in Carlisle' (via British Newspaper Archive)
Also lost on London Road
8 other lost pubs stood within 250 m of here. See them on the map