Nothing left of the house now, but as far as I could see the roof was pretty new. My opinion is that the people who lived there were in the middle of renovating the house and choose to remove a baring wall... and that's why they house was left abandoned for a few years before being demolished....
The workmat elooked old as it had a cast frame as opposed to the pressed ones you get now. Shame about the place it looks as though would have been a nice place.