The application for Horncliffe Mansion, in Bury Road, Rawtenstall, also includes an application for listed building consent to renovate the Grade II-listed building, dating from 1851. Under the proposals, the building would become a four-bed home, plus the construction of two four-bedroom ‘luxury’ houses on the former car park, plus associated work. Documents submitted with the plans state: “Since purchasing the Horncliffe Mansion site in 2022, the applicant has made significant positive steps in bringing the site back into beneficial use.
“In 2024, the Applicant began a programme of reinstatement of the roof, brickwork and floors to reinstate bracing and lateral stability to the structure and take the first steps in making the building weathertight for the first time in six years.” How the mansion looked after a fire Each new-build would have four parking spaces, with at least 10 retained for the main house. The plans for the main house add: “Due to the total loss of the original interior and all of its features it is proposed to reinstate the interior with more modern materials and avoid a pastiche failed recreation of the original as simply we do not have the detail to be able to recreate the interiors as they once were.
“A sympathetic style to the period will be adopted. “The interior layout is to revert back to similar to what would have existed originally, grand main rooms to the front elevation, service rooms toward the rear around a grand central stair.