This was my favourite 'local' spot ever. About as stereotypically English as you could get, a huge country pile slowly decaying away in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. According to the history, it had been uninhabited since around 1914, although cared for to some degree as the owners live in a smaller house behind the main larger house. Documents found inside seemed to support this, as there was no papers inside dated later than 1909.

I first visited just over four years ago and the place is still to this day the most incredible manor house I've ever explored, I could spend hours in here in the peace and quiet given the opportunity. Over the years I visited it numerous times, and every time I went I saw more little items missing, more plasterwork fallen onto the floors, the floors get ever more weak and rotten until not long after my last visit in April 2014, workers moved in to stop the entire house collapsing in on itself. Which is somewhat of a relief because a lot of the internal structure was in a very bad way.

These photos are a mix of all my visits, taken on different cameras at different times, a couple are from my first visit but most taken later on.







































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That is absolutely awesome! You won't believe how jealous I am right now.

Incredible! How Lovely the home is, and, so Strange no one has lived there since the 1900's. Kind of tugs at the old heart strings.
Love the personal documentation and the pic of the room with the columns. That stove is something else...Amazing!

Beautiful! Love the wood work and iron stair railings.

Abandoned since 1900's? Incredible dude

Very Cool...

Thanks guys yes it's a wonder it survived so long uninhabited, the various store rooms and cellars were used up until the second world war and some of the ground floor rooms were used more recently for groundsmans storage but it wasn't lived in as a house for 100 years, which is incredible.

WOW! The woodwork and the artifacts here are incredible. Would love to see more pics of this place.

Have you spoken to the owners? Is there a restoration plan afoot, or is the work solely to keep the place from falling down?

Posted by Emperor Wang WOW! The woodwork and the artifacts here are incredible. Would love to see more pics of this place. Have you spoken to the owners? Is there a restoration plan afoot, or is the work solely to keep the place from falling down?

The current owners live in a house behind the main house, if you followed the drive along to the left of the first photo it'd roll up right outside their house. They also had a tenant living in a small sectioned off part of the house sealed off from the derelict bit, you can just about make out the edge of his 'garden' on the right of the photo - he wasn't too bothered about people going in which was nice. The estates office, which managed the building and the grounds was located across the road through the village also.

There was a very slow restoration happening up until last year (my original post should have said April 2013), when contractors were brought in to start some serious effort in saving the building because as you can see from the last photos the floors upstairs were in a dreadful state, and a portion of the centre floors in the house had already collapsed many years ago leaving a void in the middle with those rooms sealed off with wooden hoardings.

This was always a great location as you never knew what parts you'd get to see - doors that were previously locked shut would be open on one visit and re-locked the next visit, and you'd find rooms that had been open previously locked up. It took me 3 visits to get into the upstairs vault room through the door in the penultimate photo for instance. We only ever found the storage rooms under the stairs open once, and the attic was sealed up until my very last visit.

My most comprehensive set of photos is here https://www.flickr...72157627825235012/

As of now, the last I heard it was having lots of work still done on and inside it.

That is amazing. A. Maze. Ing.

What a treasure. Thank you for the additional info and photos.

What an incredible place, on so many levels.
I'd live there in a heartbeat.
Thanks for sharing.

Absolutely stunning location. Love the paperwork you found as well. Amazing find!