Horncliffe Manor House
Horncliffe Manor House is a grade 2 listed building in Rossendale, Lancashire. The building was constructed in 1879 by a Mr Henry Hoyle Hardman, the son of Mr George Hardman a successful local business man who also built Oakhill House which is now the Rossendale museum. The 2 storey building is relatively square in its plan and in 3 bays with a central portico to the principal elavation. The house is surrounded by a generous plot with mature woodland and single trees. Henry Hardman lived in the house right up until his death in 1888 with his wife Emily living in the house for a further 8 years until her death in 1886 when the house was passed on to their daughter Annie Hardman who lived in the house until 1903 then the house and contents were sold to a Mr Roland Rawlinson who also owned Myrtle Grove Mill in Waterfoot. From the 1960's until the 1980's Lancashire County Council used the house as a care home for the elderly. The house was again sold on in 1993 and it was turned in to a hotel and function venue at which time it was renamed Horncliffe Mansion with many couples from the Rossendale valley holding their wedding celebrations within the house and ballroom. The company that operated the hotel was dissolved on the 23rd June 2009 and the house has remained unoccupied since then and more recently deteriorating quite quickly.