Clifton
House Period Interiors
198 Blackburn Road, Haslingden,
Rossendale, Lancashire BB4 5HW
Tel: 01706 831625 Fax: 01706 231635
Michael Mahon had no intention of
moving house but then he came across a "very tired
looking, run down" Victorian building for sale. It is now
the home of Clifton House Period Interiors. Michael
still doesn't know quite what prompted him to buy the
dilapidated building. The place had been sadly neglected over
the years but many of its original features were still in
place fireplaces, a cast iron range, a stained glass window,
carved oak panelling and ornate plasterwork on the ceilings in
the drawing and dining rooms. "I realised," says
Michael "that my future was going to be in the
past."
After
painstaking restoration, he opened part of the house as a
private Victorian Dining Rooms which proved to be immensely
successful. Many customers pleaded with him to sell some of
the furnishings which he occasionally did. "I enjoyed so
much replacing them and realised there was a gap in the market
here." So he closed the restaurant and together with
three lifelong friends converted the house into a vast
emporium of 15 magnificent rooms stocked with beautiful
reproduction period furniture, fabrics, pictures, mirrors,
fixtures, fittings and accessories. Clifton House also offers
a design service, sourcing and delivering the best furnishings
available.