Post office that starred in Emmerdale fails to sell

A Grade II-listed property that was used as a filming location for the TV soap Emmerdale has failed to sell at auction.

The two-storey building in the village of Esholt, where the show was shot until 1998, was a village post office in numerous scenes and was listed for £200,000.

But at agent Pugh's online auction, two city centre car parks and a derelict house owned by Bradford Council were all sold.

The end-of-terrace dwelling in Tyersal went for triple its asking price at £61,000, but as a condition of sale the new owner must renovate it to a habitable standard within a year.

The Esholt property went up for sale after the Post Office business was bought in 2025 by Helen Myers, a local resident and Emmerdale fan. She will be a tenant of any new owner of the building.

The listing of 21 Main Street said at the time: "The property is well-known to millions of viewers of Emmerdale for its long-running appearance as the village post-office, offering tourism appeal as a result."

The property is subject to a six-year lease with an annual rent of £11,385.

Emmerdale is now filmed on a set on the Harewood estate near Leeds.

The one-bedroom Tyersal property was one of several long-term vacant buildings in the district purchased by the council as part of a push to bring homes back into use, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

The two car parks, located on the edge of the Little Germany area, were also "surplus" local authority assets and both sold above their asking price.

The 0.2-acre car park to the north of Pine Street had a guide price of £60,000, but sold for £93,000.

Meanwhile the 0.36-acre car park to the south had a guide price of £100,000 and sold for £110,000.

No details of the successful bidders have been released.

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