The Wheatsheaf Hotel

Gone

Closed by the Board, 1917

There now

In residential use by 2018

Address

Longtown

Where exactly

Placed from the Ordnance Survey grid reference, NY3803368724, in Historic England's gazetteer of the scheme's premises. The building's use in 2018: residential.

A Longtown hotel from around 1790, closed by the Liquor Control Board in 1917 along with the White Swan, while the town was dry under the scheme's outright prohibition. No photograph of it as a hotel is known. Its building on Swan Street, a few doors from the White Swan, is a house now. Like most Longtown houses it came to the Board by way of the Scottish control office, which ran the border houses for the first months, in October 1916.

It was lot 2 in the Board's auction of 3 May 1919, a dwelling house in Swan Street, formerly the Wheat Sheaf Inn. The Cumberland News of 7 June 1919 offered it again by private treaty, which suggests it had not sold. It had been a state house for longer than its closure date suggests. By the Cumberland News's count in July 1916, the town's seven licensed houses had then been under the Board's management for about a year, run from its Scottish office for the Gretna area; Carlisle only took them over on 1 October 1916, the date usually given, as the Bush Hotel's entry explains.

Sources

• Mike Tuer, "Pubs of Carlisle" Day 198, 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
• 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, 7 June 1919, p. 12: Sales by Auction (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)
• The Cumberland News, 4 November 1916, p. 5: 'The Control Board: progress of the Carlisle scheme' (E. C. Sanders's report of 1 November) (via newspapers.com)

Also lost in Longtown

• The Bush Hotel
• The White Swan Hotel
• The Scotch Arms Hotel
• The George & Dragon
• The Marquis of Granby
• Monkhouse's Spirit Vaults

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

Still serving, near where it stood

• Longtown Social Club

  Longtown
  10 maway

• Graham Arms Inn

  Longtown
  90 maway

• The Tavern

  Longtown
  130 maway

• Metal Bridge Inn

  Metal Bridge
  4.6 kmaway