Large rural office complex Haywards Heath feb 2009

nutnut · Feb 11, 2009

I am fairly new on here, so please excuse the quality off the post! Everyone has to start somewhere, hey?

Been looking at this for a few weeks just to get my juices flowing and back into UE. The site has been empty for almost a year now and remains in a pretty good state apart from the lead having been removed from the roof around the back, all ceilings and cable remain, as the whole place is live! would love to see the scum try and strip this one, sub station on site buzzing away, just waiting to adjust the attitude of some thieving fool! There is a large house right beside it with a right busy-body old dear there which probably has a little to do with this.

The offices consist of an older country house type building that has been added to at some point, several times i would say. All in all not very interesting, but still an explore of sorts. There are many outbuildings dotted around the grounds, most of which i did'nt get to look at due to time.

Anyway here aresome of the pics, please bear in mind i am NOT a photographer.

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Sorry if the images are too big

King Al · Feb 11, 2009

Good stuff nutnut, some intresting features for a office block, like the shot from the floor

krela · Feb 11, 2009

You've never come across a striped sub-station then? I have.

Looks good though, thanks for sharing.

nutnut · Feb 11, 2009

krela said:
You've never come across a striped sub-station then? I have.

Looks good though, thanks for sharing.

Yes on many occasions, it helps if they are isolated first though otherwise things get a bit hot, i.e. burning flesh, it's not very nice! I have seen the afters of such an incident first hand

But, you never know how far these idiots will go to get a few quid without having to do a normal job like us! Ha! Ha!

Thanks

Foxylady · Feb 11, 2009

Some rather delightful and interesting features in the buildings. Love the wavy block...most unusual.
Nice find, nutnut.

Lightbuoy · Feb 11, 2009

This is great -not everyday that you see some nice solid buildings with some character (instead of tin sheds) on an Office Complex

Love the wavey building, and the third from last shot especially.

Lb :jimlad:

nutnut · Feb 11, 2009

Yes, this place is a little unusual. Shortly after i nearly ripped one of my testicles off on an old school corrugated iron fence (shaped to deter climbing over it) i came across this little pond. Upon descovering this i distrubed a heron that headed for the sky as quickly as it could! where it was chased about for a good 5 minutes by 2 seagulls!!! Felt a bit guilty really, but i can't fly so i had to swallow that one :lol:

Found a few other strange/interesting features.

This tropical delight is the back of the shed, thought i was in sunny spain!

Plaque 1 in reception??

Plaque 2 in reception?? Crapped myself as you can see from the camera shake 666? :icon_evil
Thank god i picked out the 1 to make 1666 :lol:

Rather nice fire place in another part of the building.

night crawler · Feb 11, 2009

"mind i am NOT a photographer." I think you will find most of us are not. Good photo's though.

Foxylady · Feb 11, 2009

Those plaques are great. It looks as though someone went to some trouble to preserve past relics.
That little house thingy in the pond is delightful...heron heaven. :mrgreen:

Potter · Feb 12, 2009

That is lovely! Great work. The floor based shot is great. Love that bendy section. I wonder what that box thing is in with the cassette recorders.

nutnut · Feb 12, 2009

Potter said:
That is lovely! Great work. The floor based shot is great. Love that bendy section. I wonder what that box thing is in with the cassette recorders.

Its some kind of call monitoring and/or training thing from what it said on it. There were head phones and interconnects for telephone lines etc in the lid of the case.

I had hoped it was going to stuffed full of cash as it was hidden away in a dark corner of the basement! No such luck :lol:

DogRecon · Feb 12, 2009

Lucky

Good pics. Darn lucky that you havn't had pikeys in yet.

nutnut · Feb 13, 2009

DogRecon said:
Good pics. Darn lucky that you havn't had pikeys in yet.

They have been on the roof having the lead, you can see on the bendy building if you look closely. I dropped by on the way past the other day and there were a load of roof tiles ripped off and flung onto the deck below a high level bay window-more lead! As i left the site some very large security dudes were coming in through their entrance

so that was lucky.

I am sure it won't be long before it is trashed and stipped of any scrap etc

apoo.. · Feb 17, 2009

nice pics. mid sussex is full of surprises it seems

Urban-Warrior · Feb 17, 2009

some nice pics love that fireplace.. thanks for sharing..

james.s · Feb 18, 2009

krela said:
You've never come across a striped sub-station then? I have.

Looks good though, thanks for sharing.

There's 2 in the American adventure. I am not sure if it is Gypos or contractors, but judging by all the oil, it is probably gypsies.

smileysal · Feb 18, 2009

Excellent pics (and i'm not a photographer either lol, just take pics I like

). Love how they've incorporated the old, with different era newer additions. Especially like that curved glass part of the offices. That fireplace is awesome, love that, was that in the older part of the building? Good to see both the plaques in the main reception too, glad they've held onto those and made a feature out of them.

Love the pond, and the spanish type wall. Did you find the tennis courts out the back? I think they're behind the pond.

Nice work,

Cheers,

Sal

nutnut · Feb 21, 2009

smileysal said:
Excellent pics (and i'm not a photographer either lol, just take pics I like ). Love how they've incorporated the old, with different era newer additions. Especially like that curved glass part of the offices. That fireplace is awesome, love that, was that in the older part of the building? Good to see both the plaques in the main reception too, glad they've held onto those and made a feature out of them.

Love the pond, and the spanish type wall. Did you find the tennis courts out the back? I think they're behind the pond.

Nice work,

Cheers,

Sal

Nice one, cheers Sal

yeh, i saw the tennis courts, but did'nt have a game as was all alone

and only had a baseball bat with me, just incase i met those lead thieves :lol:

only joking, i'm a lover not a fighter :lol:

The fireplace was in the old/new part border i think? the old part doesn't look that old from inside to be honest, just the odd feature, such as the plaques and the basement looks old on one side.

The spanish type wall was nice, the only reality check was the snow lying around on the floor.

As for the pics, i thought i'd get ripped for them, but had lots of nice comments, thanks all, it's nice to be part of a friendly and appreciative online community :biggrin:

petrolhead · Feb 21, 2009

I could do with a few of those box files! Did the monitoring machine still work, I wonder? What was the office block used for?

I went to look around the old Chailey Heritage site with my dad last year, I wish I had my camera with me. They've pulled it down now.

NobodyGirl · Feb 25, 2009

I like! I like!

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