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Dearham Hall

Has been described as a Possible Pele Tower, and also as a Possible Fortified Manor House

There are no visible remains

Name	Dearham Hall
Alternative Names
Historic Country	Cumberland
Modern Authority	Cumbria
1974 Authority	Cumbria
Civil Parish	Dearham

Cumbria HER and other sources refer to circumstantial evidence of fortified building. (Roger Wilson pers. corr.)

The Manor of Dearham was granted in moieties by Alan, the second lord of Allerdale; one was given to Simon Sheftling, and the other to Dolphin, son of Gospatric. Sheftling's posterity assumed the name of Dearham. This moiety was carried by an heiress to the Barwis family, and subsequently to the Lamplughs, one of whom, Richard Lamplugh, Esq., sold the estate in 1722 to Sir James Lowther. The other moiety was given by one of its early owners to Calder Abbey; and after the dissolution of monasteries, was granted by Queen Elizabeth, to Thomas and John Lifford. Besides the Earl of Lonsdale, Calder Abbey, and the freeholders, the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle claim a share of the manorial rights and privileges. (Bulmer 1901)

Gatehouse Comments

Although a little way from the main area of border lawlessness Dearham is still in a area where it was normal for gentry house to be defensible in the medieval period. However the possible form of the defensible house is open to question. A small solar tower attached to a hall seems more likely than a walled courtyard house.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

County Historic Environment Record

maps.cumbria.gov.uk/eggp/eggp.aspx?dept=Environment&scriptname=1%20Historic%20Environment

OS Map Grid Reference	NY073364
Latitude	54.7143211364746
Longitude	-3.43927001953125
Eastings	307370
Northings	536420