My first report, and I know people have posted about it before, but it's one of my favourite places so thought I'd start with it 
I frequently go for walks around the outside of this place/through the Church yard and peered from a distance, but on one occasion, the groundsman let me inside the gates (not very hardcore urbex but you know!) apparently I didn't look the type to vandalise (!) which is always good... Didn't get inside though, another time...
Anyway, lovely old house it was in the same family (Chaworth- Musters) for over 400 years before being sold off in the 1970's and now lies empty, decaying. It has connections with Lord Byron, who had a brief fling with Mary Chaworth, and is supposedly haunted by not only Byron, but a maid who killed herself and numerous other ghosts... I do get a strange feeling when I'm there, but I think that is more sadness at such grandeur wasting away rather than anything ghostly... It is not a huge house, and would be lovely if restored, I don't quite understand why the current owner goes to the effort of maintaining the grounds so well but leaves the house itself to fall in on itself, particularly so after a fire in the late 90's. Heyho, if I ever win the lottery...
On with the photos
The Hall
Stable/Carriage Block.
I always get a sense of sadness looking at its windows, they look like sad eyes to me
Lovely old sundial
Hmmm
Garden Terrace, was very delapidated when I took these photos but they seem to have installed props since then
A garden store (?)
Didn't have a torch so didn't venture further
The back of the hall is in the worst condition, with no floors etc
A creepy wee hut. I half expected to go in and find an old woman in a rocking chair
Some of the old Church
Sorry for the poor quality of photos, having to make do with my phone camera atm.
I frequently go for walks around the outside of this place/through the Church yard and peered from a distance, but on one occasion, the groundsman let me inside the gates (not very hardcore urbex
but you know!) apparently I didn't look the type to vandalise (!) which is always good... Didn't get inside though, another time...Anyway, lovely old house it was in the same family (Chaworth- Musters) for over 400 years before being sold off in the 1970's and now lies empty, decaying. It has connections with Lord Byron, who had a brief fling with Mary Chaworth, and is supposedly haunted by not only Byron, but a maid who killed herself and numerous other ghosts... I do get a strange feeling when I'm there, but I think that is more sadness at such grandeur wasting away rather than anything ghostly... It is not a huge house, and would be lovely if restored, I don't quite understand why the current owner goes to the effort of maintaining the grounds so well but leaves the house itself to fall in on itself, particularly so after a fire in the late 90's. Heyho, if I ever win the lottery...
On with the photos
The Hall
Stable/Carriage Block.
I always get a sense of sadness looking at its windows, they look like sad eyes to me
Lovely old sundial
Hmmm
Garden Terrace, was very delapidated when I took these photos but they seem to have installed props since then
A garden store (?)
Didn't have a torch so didn't venture further
The back of the hall is in the worst condition, with no floors etc
A creepy wee hut. I half expected to go in and find an old woman in a rocking chair
Some of the old Church
Sorry for the poor quality of photos, having to make do with my phone camera atm.
