The Railway Inn

The Railway Inn is a hotel, now a public house, built in 1837. It features red sandstone ashlar on a squared plinth, with angle pilaster strips, a string course, a cornice, and a partial solid parapet. The roof is made of graduated greenslate with coped gables, and there are ridge and end ashlar chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and five bays, arranged in a double-depth plan. The central raised bay includes a panelled door with a patterned overlight, accessed by steps in a pilastered surround. Originally, it had a tetrastyle portico that was removed in the early 20th century. The sash windows have glazing bars set in plain stone reveals, with recessed panelled aprons under the entrance in stone architraves. There are plastic canopies over the ground floor windows. The interior was not inspected. The Railway Inn was built to serve the London Road Station of the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, which is now demolished. It was referred to as the "new" Railway Hotel in the Carlisle Journal in 1837. At one time, it had an attached bowling green, as shown on the 1842 Map of Carlisle.