Green’s Dictionary of Slang

beer; thus yell-house, an ale house.

1802		R. Anderson ‘The Worton Wedding’ Cumberland Ballads (1805) 12: They up, and drank het suggar’d yell.
1804		R. Anderson ‘The Twee Auld Men’ Cumberland Ballads (1805) 90: You minds when we off like the win / Frae kirk to the yell-house.
1812		J. Bell Jr. (ed.) Rhymes of Northern Bards 315: So we went tiv a yell house [...] / But the reck’ning, my soul!
1835		Duncombe Dens of London 63: I met Tom [...] and asked him for three-pence to get a pint of yell.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.