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After 11+ years of searching I finally found the sketchiest single building I've ever entered in the UK, and I think this one will remain the holder of that for some time.
I had spotted this house the other day whilst perusing maps as I do when I'm bored and was passing it recently so decided to pop by and have a look. I'd noted that the roof of the property appeared a little 'skewed' on the most recent aerial view but I thought it may just be a distorted image or something...nope. The entire central portion of the roof has, at some point, come crashing through the house taking a lot of the first floor with it, ripping out part of a gable end in the process. In the entrance hallway the ceiling/first floor is being held up by a fridge and the front door. The staircase and the kitchen were both buried under a mess of roof tiles, rotten beams, and the remains of the collapsed rotten first floor hung precariously over a doorway, supported by a wardrobe.
It's a real shame because at one point it would have made for a great time capsule farmhouse, there was a lot of stuff left in a couple of the rooms that were more unaffected by the total structural failure.
I did what I could with my phone in the rooms I could get to without having tons of rotten wood come raining down on me, or going on a very swift trip into the basement.
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4 - The most impressive sight to me on the exterior was this brick, which had at one point been fixed into the wall with the old landline phone cable attached. When the gable end collapsed it catapulted the brick out of the wall leaving it, and the landline cable, dangling close to the ground.
5 - The first peek through a window revealed a worrying sight.
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7 - The living room had ancient acro props holding up the rotten upper floor.
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9 - Somewhere under here was the kitchen.
10 - One final shot, this was taken from the outside through a small open window, into a room that is totally inaccessible from the inside now.
It's very sad that the house suffered such a fate at the hands of gravity, as from the evidence I could see it looked as if it would have been a great little time capsule house a while ago before everything rotted out and collapsed.
[last edit 9/28/2020 9:25 AM by mookster - edited 1 times]
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Oh my gosh. What a lovely pile of beautiful brick.
Glad nothing collapsed on you there. Thanks for sharing!
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Wow, you weren't kidding. Everything that isn't brick looks like mush. Brave of you to step inside to get this set, don't know if I would have done the same.
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