Cottage Nr Milnathort Dec 08 (Pic heavy!)

[escortmad79]

Spotted this cottage on Geograph so decided to go & see it & I wasn't disappointed!

From the front it doesn't look too derelict really, a little overgrown but nothing to suggest what was to await me!

Close up of the front door

Around the back & the story is a different matter!

Ohhh...

Plaster work:

Roof tiles of a lean-to type shed

This was the interior floor! Floorboards were like quicksand with the underlying carpet ontop of rotten floorboards!

The back of the toilet system is in that lot!

Don't know what this is, think it maybe the remains of a cooker:

Close up of a fireplace:

Close up of a lock on a door:

A shoe!

Thats not good!! Upstairs... err downstairs!

Roof supports:

This I think was the utility area, as there was a toilet room to one side

Close up of the sink

This was in the side (roofless) part of the house:

Just to the side of the roofless section here is a small burn

Hidden by undergrowth

Which further down towards Milnathort turns into this

 

[Foxylady]

The style of it looks quite grand but on a very tiny scale. It's great.

 

[Seahorse]

Fantastic! What I wouldn't give for a wee cottage by a burn, sipping a nice chilled Guinness while I cool my tootsies in the water.

Oh, hang on. This is Scotland we're talking about.

What is it with old cottages and abandoned shoes, though???????

 

[Foxylady]

What is it with old cottages and abandoned shoes, though???????

Maybe they forgot to put their shoes back on after cooling their tootsies in the water?