Tales of the Urban Explorer: 'The Limes House'

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I could add some explicit history about, ‘The Limes House’, but that would surely give away the exact location. If it’s a shit-tip then I don’t care but this one has already seen enough vandalism and having seen the rate of deterioration lately of some old homes I do feel responsible.

It can hardly be called a 'Time-Capsule' as it was once a working hotel (or was it?) but it contains very salvageable items and sits almost next to the more infamous 'Estoril House' the scene of a grisly murder some 70 years ago.

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We tried in vain to enter 'Estoril' as it contains a lovely grand piano and I was hoping to chug some cords on, as well as the beginning of, 'She's like the Wind', if I can remember it.

Alas, it had been sealed, and we were very surprised 'The Limes House' was not in the same state. Same owners, but possibly they had just nipped down to B&Q to buy more seals and were now returning armed with wood, boards, and nails.

One thing I am wary of is 'the sealers' banging them into place entombing both @anidiotexplores and me inside. He's a decent bloke, but an eternity of him may be pushing it a little.

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This is the reason for the haste, and fortunately neither of piss around too much.

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“This could be easier than a frontal direct approach?”

We were walking up a slight hill with a large intimidating-looking fence to the left of us. 'The Limes House' was close but we had not quite reached it. Knowing the grounds of these old stately homes were around 2 miles square, I guessed the other side of this fence was indeed, 'the grounds'.

I jumped through a hole thoughtfully crafted by a nameless vandal and vanished from public view.

...Not so overgrown that I am fighting to gain a few inches; all the better...

As with all of my explores this visit was almost a year ago, and since I have heard no recent reports regarding 'The Limes House' or 'Estoril House', I can safely assume both are now sealed and hopefully being renovated.

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As for our entrance, the window was aided on both sides with helpful chairs, usually of the wheeled type just to catch you out.

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It looks like the kitchen, complete with industrial-sized gear to get that 5-star food out to the starving guests.

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A pre-curser to audiobooks; the subject matter is monotonous, at least in my opinion. If they contracted some old boring fart for the narrative then even worse.

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Is that a touch of burning on the underside of the mantelpiece? It is a strange place for a cooker.

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There was nothing inside the notebooks of interest, but you can now see the connection between the two ex-hotels. One contains dried murderous blood and the other one is clean.

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The rooms in 'The Limes House' were large and spacious, typical of this period with that 'period' questionable wallpaper.

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When entering, this is what you might have seen, albeit with touch less mess.

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Multiple copies of a strange-looking agenda. Cindy knew the trick, just relax in the bar and let the rest of those bastards do all the work. The disposal bags were empty, lucky us!

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The rooms all had names; a trait that has been kind of lost in more modern times.

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It's not a bad old place to sleep in. I would prefer a room with intact windows and without broken glass sticking in my toes.

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That is the Gladstone bedroom. Maybe it's the prestige of sleeping in the largest suite and bollocks to the hostile facilities.

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Why write all this stuff down; Isn't it enough to just look at it? This is the kind of behavior I had as a boy when there was fuck all to do in life.

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Fine quality MFI shelving, guaranteed to last for two years before falling apart.

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‘The College’. What I was seeing looked far from one of those, but the adjoining properties could well have been. There were several, and the others will be published shortly.

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‘Not to Scale’ it says, but that Gladstone Bedroom was bigger than the rest!

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Perhaps this was a library come hotel. Arnold Bennett, I don't know, Arnold 'Ace' Rimmer... I do.

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If there were music to be played in a Victorian building, it would hardly be Megadeth, though if I were to choose, the metal band would be preferable over this.

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The Limes House’ was in remarkable shape considering it’s been left to rot. We ascended in search of more.

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You could feasibly take a shower given the water was running. A few splinters may enter your toes on the exit.

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Not more homeless but a stack of excess quilts.

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It is true, the odd door was ripped off its hinges and discarded but compared to the rest of the derps in Stoke, this was positively A+ grade.

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I would have chosen this room if I was homeless; intact glass, just a smidge of mold, a working radiator, and electric sockets to plug in my auto-lube vibrating vagina. All the things a happy vagrant needs before hitting the sack.

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Having gone room to room, finding many of them quite empty we descended looking to finish off.

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The lock was quite useless considering the left side guard had been ripped off its hinges.

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Take your chances or not? The rightmost ones could well have been old stock or could have been spiked with arsenic and left by the owners for those thirsty annoying explorers.

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The 'Lux' expiry dates are from 2011. Rubbing these on your ball sack will result in only 'quite clean' testicles.

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Trying to be clever with focusing occasionally results in illegible text. I can’t remember what these pinkish tins were for.

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Very fresh, I am sure of that. Take your pick amongst Milk or Flora.

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Hardly priceless pottery, but pottery; we were still in the land of porcelain.

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This was the first of THREE explores all next to each other. 'Estoril House' was the fourth and the one that got away.

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Writing stuff in notepads was totally symptomatic of our youths when there wasn't the internet and you didn't play football, lol!

I can imagine a wheelie chair under a window totally catching people out :OD

I can imagine a wheelie chair under a window totally catching people out :OD

The number of times I have placed my foot on to a 'climbing aid' that moves is numerous. Only yesterday I hauled my arse out of a pub window on to what looked like a filing cabinet, resting on a very uneven surface.

Woah.... woahhhh... woaohhhhhh.., is the usual outcome, with my outstretched arms desperately trying to keep upright. I'm sure the bastards do it on purpose

I have done that before ion the office and not even doing a bit of illicit derping! That feeling as the thing you are standing on starts to shift. Yeek!

I haven't fallen yet, touch wood. Got stuck on a fence yesterday that tore into my back.., all for a bus depot!

Oucha. Hopefully your shoulder means that the universe owes you some injury free time!

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Reasonable condition, stately old place worth breathing new life into, not sure about the food stores nor those records.

Good run of fun this round with loads to see still surviving.

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I have many of these 'stately homes' in the bag to come. Most are shells and not like this one. These buildings are enormous and could house several families. So wasteful.

Perhaps it was a boarding school !LOLZ

Rich old farts always had great land, living style of totally sublime dimensions.

Only good to renovate to remember our forefathers had to keep them going, not so? Man servants and hand maidens.... or more!

It's probably been lots of things. There's a date of 1893 stuck on the front, so it's late Victorian. Bad things happened during those times, those walls could tell us many things!

Some fun history, appears up for sale, large portion of land with some impressive buildings.

Is this the right place? Interesting tracking some of the trails you take.

It's the right place, some of the others mentioned are coming up next.

Look forward to seeing the old establishments.

From age 6 have a pen-pal who lived in the region, when visiting stayed with them, met extended family. Familiar with the area as we still keep contact.

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One thing I am wary of is 'the sealers' banging them into place entombing both @anidiotexplores and me inside. He's a decent bloke, but an eternity of him may be pushing it a little.

Ahhhhhhh.... Ahhhhh .... :))

Great pics as always and lots of crazy hilarious lines, great to brighten up my day!... I hope you can get into that hotel where they have a grand piano and there was a murder!... But make sure you don't get sealed inside !... :))

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I hope you can get into that hotel where they have a grand piano and there was a murder!

Alas, I don't think so. These explores are 'last years models' with a finite time to get in and get out. They come and go, and once gone are rarely available again.


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wow! Thanks for sharing this adorable content with us here.

What a lovely house. Shame.


How I love those houses 🏡 abandoned 🏡.
With their classic style of their time too bad there are riffraff vandalizing them 🤢.
It doesn't let you see the art that was for our time where every house looks the same and art is being commercialized.



Como amo esas casas 🏡 abandonadas
Con su estilo clásico de su tiempo lástima que hay gentuza que las vandalizan 🤢
No deja ver el arte que fue para nuestro tiempo donde todas las casa parecen iguales y el arte está siendo comercializado.


Maybe they had played megadeth's symphony of destruction there - but then again, it didnt quite look that bad yet. We'll need to get Dave Mustaine back in to finish the job off and turn the property into the usual vandalised hell hole !

Nice explore !

Something to move the dust around and not send everyone to sleep 😀

it's really very unfortunate, I'm sure this will be a very beautiful building if it is rehabilitated again @slobberchops

I think the only thing this place needs is a proper clean up
Once that is done, the place will look amazing again
It is not that bad

I am wondering how long this place has been left vacant and I am a bit confused why is there a library with an inscription “these books are for the college” in a hotel.

All the things inside looks like what I actually see in a thriftshop

Your dedication to documenting these details adds depth to the story, and I'm eager to hear more about your experiences.

Absolutely wonderful house I would like to sink my teeth into!
All my life I have longed for a house of my own and still do even though I am older.
Shame on giving up!

Gracias por compartir, muy buen post!!

That stove looks like it is still in really good condition. Actually, the whole place doesn't look too bad. Just clean all the crap out and you are good to go. I hope you are right and that by now someone has this place boarded up and they are renovating it.

It could have gone either way. A Bungalow 'Time-Capule' we did last year recently got burnt and is a now an unstable wreck. Not even a little salvageable.

That's too bad. It's a bit sad to hear about stuff like that. I'm actually kind of surprised that you have so many vacant places with so much space. That would be eaten up here. 2 Square miles would go for a pretty penny.

2 Square miles would go for a pretty penny.

It's an exaggeration!

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Ugh... did they really use Papyrus as their reception desk font? And Comic Sans on their library sign? THEY DESERVED TO FAIL!!

Those winders on the stairwell turn definitely don't meet code. I had an apartment with stairs like that. Suicide if you take the wrong step. Nowadays a minimum 6" tread depth is required on the narrow edge, at least as of the building codes when I last had to design a staircase.

I think you would know these things, having more library experience than many of us. I saw some very narrow steps recently, in 'The Gay Mans House'. That's for sometime next year 😃

I have also been a draftsman. Old houses had very different ideas of proper stair design, and while many a grand staircase in a nice old house is perfectly serviceable by modern standards of tread depth and step rise, the stairs meant for servants are downright deadly. Many a cheap small home is also dangerous.

The rise from one step to the next should not exceed 8"/20cm and tread depth should be about 11"/27cm off the top of my head. There are more specific rules of thumb based on trade experience for the old timers and strict building code standards today.

I have been in a couple recently with 'bad stairs'. Very shallow, and they are not always old properties.

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