{{about|the stately home in West Yorkshire|buildings used as a meeting place for Scouting|Scout hall}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} 300px|thumb|Scout Hall, Shibden Valley, Halifax '''Scout Hall''' (also known as '''Scote Hall''') at Shibden near Halifax, 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, 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. == References == {{commons category}} {{reflist}}
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Category:Country houses in West Yorkshire Category:Buildings and structures in Halifax, West Yorkshire
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