John Peel Inn

NY 33 NW CALDBECK Caldbeck

13/53 John Peel Inn (formerly listed as 19.6.73 Oddfellows Arms Inn)

G.V. II

Public House. Early C19 with late 1920s alterations. Painted roughcast walls with painted V-jointed quoins. Graduated greenslate roof with C20 brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 3 bays with lower 2-storey, single-bay extension to rear. C20 double plank doors in painted surround under plain cornice. Sash windows with glazing bars and tripartite sash windows with glazing bars on both floors to right, all in painted stone surrounds. C20 single-storey toilet extension to right side under greenslate roof and similar wall to pub. Side entrance has C17 chamfered surround under shaped lintel. Extension has hipped Welsh slate roof and sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds. Taken over as part of the Carlisle and District State Management Scheme and returned to private ownership in 1973, when the name was changed from the Oddfellows Arms. Was called the Rising Sun Inn in 1828-9, when John Peel and John Woodcock Graves sang Bonnie Annie there, after writing it at Graves house nearby, see Hugh Machell, John Peel, 1926, p85, illustrated.

Listing NGR: NY3239439774