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Creskeld Hall is a grade II* listed Country House located in Arthington, near Otley, West Yorkshire, England.
Map of Creskeld Hall, Creskeld Ln, Arthington, Bramhope, Otley LS21 1NT, UK
It once belonged to the Rhodes family in 1846 and has been privately owned by the same family since 1919 and was the home of Colonel Sir Malcolm Stoddart-Scott OBE MC TD, until his death in 1973.
The Hall is known to many people as Home Farm from the ITV soap Emmerdale and has been used on the show since the first series commissioned following the pilot series in 1972, a purpose built imitation was used for a short period in 2014.
A flat-roofed billiard room extension was added by the owner in 1919. This connects the 16th century chapel with the main body of the house, and has enclosed a courtyard where the front entrance used to be.
The gardens of Creskeld Hall are open to the public occasionally as part of the National Gardens Scheme "Yellow Book", with the proceeds being split between the National Garden Scheme, and a charity of the owner's choice. The house sits in approximately 3.5 acres (14,000 m2) of garden, and has many rare colours of rhododendron and azalea collected by one of the family in the 1930s. The grounds also boasts a fine specimen of a mature Monkey Puzzle tree.
The estate's home farm was until 2013 home to a prized herd of pedigree Holstein Friesans dairy cattle. The lineage of the herd could be traced back to its inception by one of the owners of the estate in the early 1920s. The record breaking dispersal sale of June 2013 sadly saw the end of the herd following the retirement of the long-standing herd manager.