lurch
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Another remarkable mansion that was all the more fascinating for the way you can see the process of decay happening around you.
From the outside, the building looked relatively intact, but only when you ventured inside could you see how the ravages of years of neglect have taken their toll. In one sense this place is even more sad because the cause of its demise does not appear to be the ruthless asset stripping that happened to so many others, the stripping of the lead and slates off the roof, removal of all the floors etc, or even the deliberate vandalism that has destroyed so many.
This place looks as if little of value has been stripped out apart from a few fireplaces etc, the bulk of the building being intact. What appears to have happened here is that quite simply no one invested the time to carry out basic maintenance, and the result of this over about 50 years is a remarkable amount of decay, floors collapsing internally, leaving walls hanging in mid air with little to support them, walls collapsing as the lintels have rotted out etc. One part of an outer wall has gone, and standing in the main hall, looking up you can see where that roof will soon collapse as a single joint decays slowly.
All the more ironic is that about 100 yards away, a new house is being erected to serve the farm that presumably owns this ruin. Suffice to say, even a large modern house isn’t a patch on what this place one was.
Apparently this was last used as a school sometime in the 40's
From the outside, the building looked relatively intact, but only when you ventured inside could you see how the ravages of years of neglect have taken their toll. In one sense this place is even more sad because the cause of its demise does not appear to be the ruthless asset stripping that happened to so many others, the stripping of the lead and slates off the roof, removal of all the floors etc, or even the deliberate vandalism that has destroyed so many.
This place looks as if little of value has been stripped out apart from a few fireplaces etc, the bulk of the building being intact. What appears to have happened here is that quite simply no one invested the time to carry out basic maintenance, and the result of this over about 50 years is a remarkable amount of decay, floors collapsing internally, leaving walls hanging in mid air with little to support them, walls collapsing as the lintels have rotted out etc. One part of an outer wall has gone, and standing in the main hall, looking up you can see where that roof will soon collapse as a single joint decays slowly.
All the more ironic is that about 100 yards away, a new house is being erected to serve the farm that presumably owns this ruin. Suffice to say, even a large modern house isn’t a patch on what this place one was.
Apparently this was last used as a school sometime in the 40's
