Soulby Hall

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

There are no visible remains

NameSoulby Hall
Alternative Names
Historic CountryWestmorland
Modern AuthorityCumbria
1974 AuthorityCumbria
Civil ParishSoulby

The hall or manor house, seems to have been in the grounds now called Hall-garths. (Nicholson and Burn 1777)

Gatehouse Comments

Site of a gentry status manor house. Included by Perriam and Robinson in their gazetteer of medieval fortified buildings but there is no actually evidence the house was fortified either with a moat or a tower. The precise site of the medieval house is lost but clearly very close to the site of the current Soulby Hall which has an reset datestone of 1682.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY747110
Latitude54.4938697814941
Longitude-2.3916699886322
Eastings374700
Northings511000
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Books

  • Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29) p. 309
  • RCHME, 1936, An inventory of the historical monuments in Westmorland (HMSO) p. 215 no. 3 online transcription
  • Curwen, J.F., 1932, 'Parishes (East Ward): St John, Kirkby Stephen' The Later Records relating to North Westmorland: or the Barony of Appleby (Kendal: CWAAS Record Series 8) p. 131 online transcription
  • Nicholson, J. and Burn, B., 1777, The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland (London) Vol. 1 p. 552-3 online copy