Walking down the road, on the approach to the house you can see straight away that it is abandoned. The roof is missing, with incomplete walls.
It is very secluded, no other properties can be seen in the distance.
As I get to what could be loosely described as the drive. Ok it's a break in the wall, allowing access to the property, we get a better idea of how badly rundown this property is.
This house has seen better days, on approach I can see it has a crack running from the upstairs window to the ground with collapsing masonry over what looks to be the main entrance.
I'll have to be careful not to pass through this doorway.
Moving around the the left of the building the structure looks more sound here, but there are no beams for the first floor and the majority of the side walls are missing.
Circling round to the back of the building it looks as if the wall to the right has had some repairs as the upper layer of stone look like dry stone walling and the colour doesn't match that of the lower wall.
There is also the small issue of the missing upper floor wall in the upper centre of the picture.
As we move around the section at the back of the house, you can see a stack of stone performing a balancing act high up to the right.
On the left we can make out the remnants of the red brick fireplace.
Just to the right of the previous picture we find the cellar entrance, although it is barely big enough to get through (don't worry, there is no way I'll be trying).
However, getting up close and personal with the entrance, we can see inside and the vision is of inky black darkness, it's a good job I have a flash. There is also the clear sound of running water.
Moving slightly to my left and taking the picture again we get to see right to the back wall, and an atmospheric spiders web glints in the sunlight in the top right of the picture.
Still not content with the view, I swing to the right with the camera over to get a shot at the back corner of the cellar to open up the scene.
Leaving the cellar behind and moving on to the other side wall of the property, we can immediately see a rickety red brick stack that barely looks like it can support itself. There is also a rotten wood sandwich at the top of the stack.
Yet looking upwards we can see this unstable brickwork is supporting most of an upstairs wall. No way was I touching those bricks.
In this picture we can see wooden lintels over the doorways, the one to the left is bowing under the weight of the bricks and stone it is supporting.
Taking a closer look at the left doorways lintel we can see advanced damage to the middle of the support.
The building has some quaint little features, like this recessed feature in the wall and the stome corner shelves.
Some of the views out of the windows look bleak on a sunny day, definitely not a case of location, location, location for this property.
Imagine what it would be like to live here in the depths of winter, with the gaps in the stonework, it must have been freezing, with the only respite being the heat from the fireplace.
Sadly the fireplace is barely recognisable up close, with nettles nestled in the stone work, hiding a little spider.
Not really a place for arachnophobes.
There is also an outbuilding, but it is not clear what it was used for, this is also a wreck.
Perched in the nettles is a butterfly, this sod led me a right merry dance outside the building, it took me the best part of five minutes to get this shot. I didn't even get chance to use zoom.
As we leave the property, I turn and take a final photo. From here it looks like the lonely right hand wall has a little bit of a lean to it and we can see the fluffy white clouds with a hint of grey at the bottom, a warning of the rainfall that is to come.
Well, us brits love to talk about the weather.
England, a green and pleasant land ...
If you should find this place (I am deliberately refraining from posting the location) please view it as safely as you can, just leaning on a wall could end in serious injury.
All photos were taken by myself.
