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This Farmhouse was abandoned and was to reveal a sad story of animal cruelty .... I came across this place while out exploring and noticed a strange track which although on my own decided to check out, after a short walk up the track I saw the Farmhouse which turned out to be a listed building and reported as being around 400/500 years old along with another weird tin building which was a former TB Hospital. The house was different from other explores and I never felt quite alone, there was water pouring from a pipe in the kitchen and the house looked ransacked but had clearly been left open for some time. After a few pics of the inside I was keen to check out this strange tin building... after quietly creeping through a gate I peered around the corner and saw a dog appear out of a small old caravan.. phew he was tied up and did not see me as I quickly back tracked and left. After some research all I could find out was the farmhouse was listed and the tin building was a former TB hospital but a report in a local paper said that a man and woman of no fixed abode had been staying their and taken to court by the RSPCA after keeping animals tied up without food and water and a goat had been starved to death, the court banned them from keeping animals for 5 years... I wondered about the tied up dog/ or did it belong to a homeless person or were these former people still there.... this was one of my weirdest explores.

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Thanks for looking
 
Well u have a bigger pair than me, I would of been off like a shot just with the running water! Nicely done!
 
HughieD;306889 And what a waste of a beautiful house.[/QUOTE said:
A classic example of why 'Listing' can be the death knell to some old buildings. Four hundred odd years ago somebody constructed a small timber framed dwelling out of locally felled 'green' timber. Over the decades this cottage was altered - both in size and construction materials, to meet the day to day needs of the owner/occupiers and ending up as we see it today. It is almost as if the place had a 'life of its own', but now sadly a 'Conservation/Listing Officer' is putting a stop to this centuries old ongoing development and trying to tie the place down to some arbitrary time frame. Of course you do not want people messing about with that original remaining timber framework that is evident in the report, but equally there is nothing to be gained by stopping people doing alterations to the post 1920 additions.

One should always bear in mind, that most of our old buildings are still standing today because they have been altered/adapted over the years - to meet the demands of the occupiers at that particular time. If we stop taking that course of action, we get what we see here - a nice old property slowly falling into dereliction.
 
It's a fatal flaw in the planning / listing system. Old buildings are often not suitable for modern purposes, but the listing laws don't even consider this, making it either impossible or not economically viable to make them suitable. Thus they get left to rot until they're structurally dangerous, then a demolition order can be applied for and the land re-used.
 

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