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Low Silly Hall

Has been described as a Questionable Pele Tower, and also as a Questionable Bastle

There are major building remains

Name	Low Silly Hall
Alternative Names
Historic Country	Cumberland
Modern Authority	Cumbria
1974 Authority	Cumbria
Civil Parish	Alston Moor

Silly Hall

Possible bastle.

R.A. Fairbairn desribes it as low, two storeyed, with steep gables (heather-thatch?). It has chamfered window surrounds. P. Ryder writes 'Ruinous house of 17th century date; the surviving part is almost square, but may not represent the whole building; as it seems only to have been of two storeys, it was probably a bastle rather than a tower.' (Perriam and Robinson 1998)

Gatehouse Comments

There is also a High Silly Hall, at NY72274338, also suggested as a possible bastle. The map reference and plan in Perriam and Robinson relate to this building but the photograph shown is of High Silly Hall. There may also be some confabulation or confusion between these in historical records. There is also confusion between these two houses on some maps.Despite the 'Hall' name, often associated with gentry status building, this does not seem to be a gentry status dwelling and not a pele tower in the terms used in Gatehouse

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)

1389167

County Historic Environment Record

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

OS Map Grid Reference	NY720433
Latitude	54.7842597961426
Longitude	-2.4371600151062
Eastings	372000
Northings	543300