| Description | Creskeld Hall is a large house of various builds. It is mostly of 19th century, but with a nucleus (kitchen wing and chapel) which may be late medieval in origin. The house is of irregular plan around a small courtyard with the kitchen winf forming the west range and the former chapel forming the north range. The house is of two storeys.
The kitched wing contains a large kitchen with massive stop chamfered lateral beams, slightly smaller but otherwise similar secondary beams, a large projecting chimney breast with chamfered segmental headed fireplace, and an inserted panelled partition wall. The former chapel has been converted into a billiard room (English Heritage, 2007).
In 1240 Hugo de Creskeld granted the manor to the Abbots of kirkstall and the house, formerly known as 'Kirkskill Hall', it thought the occupy the site of the original Norman Manor House. Parts of the moat still survive on the south and west sides of the house (Le Patourel type A1(a))
Branse Instone, E., EH Designation Archaeologist, 07/09/2005: noted that the moated site is badly mutilated and overbuilt.
The house is a grade II listed building. |