Barbon Manor
Designed in the French Renaissance style by E.M. Barry (architect of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden) and built in 1862-3 as a shooting lodge for Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth. Barbon Manor occupies a steep, wooded hillside overlooking both the Lune Valley and Barbondale.
The Manchester based Sir James (1804-77), apparently a friend of Charlotte Bronte, was a health and education reformer who founded the UK’s first teacher training college.
As you can see from the photographs the Manor used to be much bigger with a tower but was demolished in 1955, the building is Grade II listed and quite simply stunning! It is still owned by the Shuttleworth’s but is leased out.