This is somewhere I really should have got around to seeing sooner, as it's a building I've found myself headed past innumerable times in the past and, for as long as I can remember, it's always been derelict. However it's one of those places that always gave off an iffy, indescribable 'vibe' to me as a kid, and I guess that reticence carried over to my exploring days. I finally saw some photos from inside a couple of weeks back and realised that it was actually a lot better than I was expecting it to be given the length of abandonment.

Some items inside suggest an abandonment date of around 1989, and this certainly ties in with my memories of always remembering it as a derelict house even back as a small child heading past the building. The decor certainly matches up with that too, as it's all wonderfully dated inside - the highlight of which being a glazed green tiled fire surround which is actually very nice indeed. Now we come to the strange aspects of the building. The ground floor layout is extremely unusual, there is a boarded over door which would have provided easy access from the dining room to one of the reception rooms, but as you can't get through that any more you have to go on a long-winded convoluted route through other rooms. There are two rooms with very low ceilings accessed up some stone steps, both of which are full of toys and other baby related items. There are Christmas decorations everywhere - numerous plastic trees, and dozens of decorations in piles about the place. There is also a trap set up behind the front door - a bookcase has been leant over onto a spirit level stood vertically with the top of the bookcase protruding across the door, so if anyone were to open that door the bookcase would come crashing to the ground. There were squatters in the building a few years back as evidenced by food packages left behind, so I guess this was their early warning alarm.

It turns out too, that after talking with my dad he has a connection to this house. He did some work for the last legal occupant of the house back in the early 1980s as he and a friend had a garage in a nearby town in the early 1980s. He'd always been fascinated by the house so was thrilled to see my photos from inside it.









































Thanks for looking

Great shots

Love the fireplace behind the plaster board. Reminds me of my house with all the things I have found!

Good work

Ooooh, what's that behind the sheetrock in #8? The original wall, and... a hole? Terrible taste to hide that tile. I hope they did the renovation for climate control purposes or something, not simple preference.

Posted by corvidcache Ooooh, what's that behind the sheetrock in #8? The original wall, and... a hole? Terrible taste to hide that tile. I hope they did the renovation for climate control purposes or something, not simple preference.

One of the original fireplaces, the green glazed tile one and that were both lovely. A lot of older fireplaces got boarded over in old houses when central heating systems became more affordable sadly.

Great shots. Very glad almost no one decorates in that style anymore. It's a lot to visually take in at once.

Looks like you hit an explorer bingo square with the Christmas tree