Stanley House Hotel, Mellor

Stanley House in Mellor, Lancashire, England, is a building of historical significance and is Grade II* listed on the English Heritage Register.

[3] According to the historian William Farrer, Stanley House was built "in the late 16th or early 17th century".

According to a book by the Chetham Society of Manchester "his name frequently occurs in the Duchy Calendar with respect to lands at Mellor, Bickerstaff etc"[5] It may therefore have been he who built Stanley House.

He married three times and the details are outlined in the book "Plantagenet Ancestry" shown at this reference.

By about 1788 the property was purchased by Henry Sudell, and in 1796 he built Woodfold Hall to the south-west of Stanley House.

At about this time a travel directory of Lancashire made the observation that "Stanley House, though now the homestead of a farmer, still retains traces of its former splendour.

"[11] In 1878 the sister of George Frederick Gregory, Eliza Amelia, and her husband Daniel Thwaites bought the estate.

He made major improvements to the estate including repairs to Stanley House.