City Centre, Carlisle
Bocata
Lowther Street bar with live singers. Thursday to Sunday.
- Today
- See opening hours
- Address
- 17 Lowther Street, Carlisle CA3 8ES
- Phone
- 01228 590290
History
- Building
- 1904, for the Carlisle Old Brewery Company
- Architect
- Henry Higginson of Carlisle
- Listed
- Grade II
Spanish-leaning food and drink on Lowther Street, and the building has a better story than the bar's age suggests.
Lowther Street is older than anything on it: it follows roughly the line of Carlisle's eastern city wall, pulled down in 1811. Numbers 15 and 17 form the entrance block to the Lowther Arcade, built in 1904 for the Carlisle Old Brewery Company to a design by the Carlisle architect Henry Higginson. It's Grade II listed, red brick and sandstone, with LOWTHER ARCADE carved above the middle entrance.
So a building put up for a brewery company still has a bar in it, 120 years on, just not the brewery's. Bocata opens Thursday to Sunday, with evening food and live singers, and is loud enough on a Sunday afternoon that at least one neighbour has written to complain about it.
Widely repeated locally, but we haven't found a source for it yet. Know one?
- Open late
- Live music
Opening hours
| Mon | Closed |
| Tue | Closed |
| Wed | Closed |
| Thu | 18:00–midnight |
| Fri | 16:00–01:30 |
| Sat | 14:00–01:30 |
| Sun | 15:00–20:00 |
Hours last checked August 2026, about 2 months ago.
Hours are kept by hand and change without warning. Ring ahead if it matters.
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- The Lanes Vaults gone 1994
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- The Bowling Green Hotel gone 1971
- The Shakespeare Tavern gone 1837
102 lost pubs stood within 400 m of here. See what used to be around it
Sources
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