A BROKEN-hearted businessman is selling his palatial home to try and win back the love of his life.

Arthur Morgan claims his one true love has left him because she doesn't like living at the remote Lords Hall, near Darwen, which he once shared with another woman.

Now Arthur, head of Darwen-based Morgan Estates, is set to move out of the £400,000, six-bedroom house complete with swimming pool and helicopter landing pad and move to Oswaldtwistle in a bid to woo her back.

The 38-year-old bachelor, who drives a Rolls-Royce, said he is moving into a modest four-bedroom home solely for the girlfriend he refuses to name.

He said: "I'm selling the house because she doesn't like it.

"She calls me the bachelor on the hill and thinks its a real lad's pad, but I'm prepared to give all that up if she'll take me back." Arthur even claims he has knocked more than £100,000 off the value of the historic home to try and secure an early sale.

He said: "At the moment I am really in the doghouse with her, I would do anything to get her back. I've known her for four years and now we have parted for many reasons, but mainly because she doesn't like the house.

"She is my one true love and I want her back."

The story echoes a tale of Lords Hall's original owner John Trafford, 200 years ago.

The Lord of the Manor had the house built in the countryside off Bury Fold Lane, as a shooting lodge, but he never actually moved in because his wife refused to live in such a bleak spot after spending years in London and Manchester.

It was also once the home of failed double-glazing tycoon Mark Sweeney. The house was daubed with graffiti and vandalised after the entrepreneur's Bury-based Stormseal and Surestyle businesses went bust with debts of more than £20 million.

Mr Morgan bought the house from the liquidators handling Mr Sweeney's debts after the £500,000 price tag was reduced by £200,000 because of the damage.

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