The New Model Inn was a style of English

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championed and designed by

Harry Redfern Henry "Harry" Redfern (April 1861 – 6 March 1950) was a British architect. Early life Born in April 1861, he was educated at Abingdon School from 1871 to 1877. Career Redfern designed work in Oxford, Cambridge, Abingdon and Carlisle. At the ...

under the State Management Scheme which had the aim of reducing drunkenness among munitions workers. All but one of the scheme's 14 public houses were built in the

Carlisle Carlisle ( , ; from xcb, Caer Luel) is a city that lies within the Northern England, Northern English county of Cumbria, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, Scottish border at the confluence of the rivers River Eden, Cumbria, Eden, River C ...

district.

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styles were used throughout. The final example, completed in 1940 at Etterby, Carlisle, was named the Redfern Inn.

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{{reflist Pubs in Cumbria Arts and Crafts architecture in England