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Date of photo: 1940s	Click above photo to expand	Picture source: Hania Franek
The Cat Hole Inn was situated on Butthouse Rigg. This grade-II listed pub was present by 1893 when the publican was Richard Parrington, a local farmer. It closed in the 1950s after the local temperance movement bought the pub at auction. It is now in residential use.
Listed building details:
Former inn, now house. Early C19. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Ashlar plinth, rusticated ashlar quoins. Ashlar surrounds to openings. Central C20 panelled door in 4-centred-arched surround. 4-pane sash windows, with dripmoulds on ground floor. Sill band to first floor. Shaped kneelers, ashlar copings. Ashlar end stacks. Rear elevation has windows in ashlar surrounds including round-arched landing window with decorative glazing bars. Formerly the Cat Hole Inn (named after the nearby Cat Hole waterfall) and the Butt House Inn.
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