# Scout Hall

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{{about|the stately home in West Yorkshire|buildings used as a meeting place for [Scouting](/source/Scouting)|Scout hall}}
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300px|thumb|Scout Hall, Shibden Valley, Halifax
'''Scout Hall''' (also known as '''Scote Hall''') at [Shibden](/source/Shibden) near [Halifax](/source/Halifax%2C_West_Yorkshire), [West Yorkshire](/source/West_Yorkshire), England, was built in 1680 for John Mitchell (1659–1696), who had inherited great wealth as a silk merchant.<ref name="bull">{{cite web |url=http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~calderdalecompanion/mms307.html |title=Scout Hall, Shibden |work=Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion |accessdate=29 May 2015}}</ref> Mitchell was castigated by the preacher Oliver Heywood for his dissolute way of life, spending his money on horse racing and drink. The house is a ['calendar' building](/source/Calendar_house), supposedly of 12 bays, with 52 doors and 365 panes of glass. It is Grade II* listed<ref name="NHLE">{{NHLE| num=1203783 |desc=Scout Hall |grade=II* |accessdate=29 May 2015}}</ref> but is on the English Heritage 'buildings at risk' register.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://risk.historicengland.org.uk/register.aspx?id=47216 |title=Scout Hall, Lee Lane, Halifax – Calderdale |work=Heritage At Risk Register |publisher=English Heritage |accessdate=29 May 2015}}</ref>

The standing Scout Hall was built on the site of several earlier houses of the same name, the ancestral homes of the Stancliff(e), Otes, Savile and Waterhouse families<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.calderdale.gov.uk/leisure/museums-galleries/shibden-hall/ |title=Shibden Hall |publisher=Calderdale Council |accessdate=29 May 2015}}</ref>{{fv|date=May 2015}} (Mitchell's wife was a Stancliff(e)).  The name Stancliffe, or Stanclift, comes from the Old English for ''stone cliff''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=Stancliff |title=Stancliff Family History |publisher=Ancestry.com |accessdate=29 May 2015}}</ref> The large homes named Scout Hall were all built near the base of a large stone cliff and a quarry from which the building stones were harvested.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/descendantsofjam00stan |title=Descendants of James Stanclift of Middletown, Connecticut and Allied Families |last1= Stancliff |first1=Sherry Smith |last2=Stancliff |first2=Robert Claude |date=1995 |publisher=S.S. Research |location=Cincinnati}}</ref>

In 2010 it was put on the market for £350,000,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-28082095.html |title=Detached house for sale |publisher=Rightmove PLC |date=6 October 2010 |accessdate=29 May 2015}}</ref> and later withdrawn, but has reputedly been sold<ref name="bull" /> to someone who intends to restore it.
 
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