John Peel Inn

The John Peel Inn is a public house dating from the early 19th century, with alterations made in the late 1920s. It features painted roughcast walls and painted V-jointed quoins, topped with a graduated greenslate roof and 20th-century brick chimney stacks. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with a lower two-storey, single-bay extension at the rear. The entrance has 20th-century double plank doors set in a painted surround beneath a plain cornice. On both floors to the right, there are sash windows with glazing bars and tripartite sash windows, all framed in painted stone surrounds. To the right side, there is a 20th-century single-storey toilet extension under a greenslate roof, which matches the wall of the pub. A side entrance features a 17th-century chamfered surround beneath a shaped lintel. The extension has a hipped Welsh slate roof and sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds. The inn was part of the Carlisle and District State Management Scheme before returning to private ownership in 1973, at which point it was renamed from the Oddfellows Arms. It was known as the Rising Sun Inn in 1828-1829, when John Peel and John Woodcock Graves composed the song "Bonnie Annie" there, after writing it at Graves' house nearby.