DALLAM TOWER

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The original Dallam Tower, a pele tower, was constructed circa 1375 and incorporated into a house circa 1546. The whole building was demolished in 1720-3 when the present house was constructed.

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(SD 49058104) Dallam Tower (NAT). (1)

The original Dallam Tower, a pele-tower, was built c.1375, and "stood just in front of the present tower, at the foot of the steps,
about 20 yards beyond the public road, and looked down the river towards Whitbarrow Scar". It was enclosed c.1546 in a new house, but the whole was evidently demolished in 1720-3, when the present house was built. (Siting of pele: SD 49088104). (2)

Listed. (3)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1956

( 2) Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society extra series

J F Curwen 13, 1913 Page(s)273

(3) Denis R Perriam and John Robinson 1998 The medieval fortified buildings of Cumbria : an illustrated gazetteer and research guide

Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society extra series vol.29 Page(s)339

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