Horncliffe House
HORNCLIFFE HOUSE, BURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318001
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Horncliffe House
- Statutory Address:
- HORNCLIFFE HOUSE, BURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318001
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Horncliffe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HORNCLIFFE HOUSE, BURY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HORNCLIFFE HOUSE, BURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Rossendale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 80080 20731
Details
SD 82 SW RAWTENSTALL BURY ROAD
6/171 Horncliffe House - - II
Large house, later C19, now Old People's Home. Sandstone with ashlar and carved dressings, hipped slate roofs with various chimneys. Double-pile plan with rear extensions etc. Two storeys; symmetrical 3-bay facade to front range has rectangular porch with round-headed entrance arch in front and segmental-headed windows in sides, dentilled cornice, balustraded parapet with an ornamental pediment in the centre and corner finials; ground floor has tripartite sashed windows in shallow bays of ashlar with dentilled cornices, above which similar surrounds to coupled segmental-headed sashed 1st floor windows have chamfered sills with carving in the centre, and elaborately carved parapets with finials, that over the centre window being much larger. Outer bays of rear range have similar windows. The principal feature of interest is the interior, which has richly ornamented doorcases, cornices, plaster ceilings, stairwell with painted panels in the sides of the skylight, and 3 fireplaces of interest: in the hall of freely carved stone in the shape of a mantel clock, incorporating a round clock in the overmantel carving; in the front room to the right, with Art Nouveau copper hood and side panels in a wooden architrave incorporating 3 oval pictures in the overmantel; and in the study to the rear also in Art Nouveau style with copper hood and panelled surrounds with alcoves incorporating overmantel cupboards with ornamental hinges.
Listing NGR: SD8008020731
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185750
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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