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Rubex

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After looking at a few photos on this report you'll soon work out why I decided to name it Pigeon house! There was bird poo everywhere!

This house sits on the land of an old boat hire company right on the edge of the River Great Ouse and is situated on almost an acre of land, according to the property listing online. There used to be a large workshop/storage area that stood next to the house, but that has all been removed.









I didn't hang around long inside the property because I don't think breathing in whatever was floating around in the air for too long would have been very good for me.

Most of the downstairs floor boards had been removed which made walking around downstairs quite the balancing act - obviously someone took a fancying to the flooring:



I'm not sure whether the house has been trashed, or just decayed quite severely:









The front door which from outside was completely boarded up:





The curtains were still hanging in some rooms:





After walking around inside for quite some time looking for the stairs it finally clicked that this wasn't a house, but in fact two flats. So making my way back outside, I climbed the outside stairs and went into the upstairs flat. I was treading very carefully up here as I was completely unsure how sturdy the floor was.



Someone had left a piano behind:

















Thanks for looking,

Rubex
 
Nice find there.. I see the piano fairy has made another deposit again lol..
 
A good find. I just love those bay windows. The floorboards look as though they have been lifted and taken away because there are nails left in the joists. There is one floorboard remaining and it looks like its made from Teak or a similar hardwood. Probably adorning someone's house. Good photography as well. But we cannot have a derelict building without a piano.
 
Nice find there.. I see the piano fairy has made another deposit again lol..

Yes! And if it's not a piano it's a shoe lol

A good find. I just love those bay windows. The floorboards look as though they have been lifted and taken away because there are nails left in the joists. There is one floorboard remaining and it looks like its made from Teak or a similar hardwood. Probably adorning someone's house. Good photography as well. But we cannot have a derelict building without a piano.

I assumed that this was the case. I take it that that particular flooring is quite sought after then?
 
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Yes! And if it's not a piano it's a shoe lol



I assumed that this was the case. It take it that that particular flooring is quite sought after then?

Yes it is. Sometimes used on decks of boats. Iroko or Teak. I just noticed a telephone directory, the date on it would tell you when the house was occupied.
 
I assumed that this was the case. I take it that that particular flooring is quite sought after then?

Nice set of photos of this well known place - sad to see this nice, well built Victorian dwelling slowly falling even more apart. The flooring is certainly sort after, but it ain't teak or any other hardwood - just good old Victorian thick pitch pine boards. Sort after and valuable to anybody who is restoring the original floors in a Victorian house - floor boarding in those days was finished much thicker than modern T/G floor boarding (a good inch to nearly 1 and 1/4 inches in some large houses). The old boards are probably lying in a sanded and varnished living room floor not a million miles from this place.
 
Nice set of photos of this well known place - sad to see this nice, well built Victorian dwelling slowly falling even more apart. The flooring is certainly sort after, but it ain't teak or any other hardwood - just good old Victorian thick pitch pine boards. Sort after and valuable to anybody who is restoring the original floors in a Victorian house - floor boarding in those days was finished much thicker than modern T/G floor boarding (a good inch to nearly 1 and 1/4 inches in some large houses). The old boards are probably lying in a sanded and varnished living room floor not a million miles from this place.

Wow - I had no idea about all of that! Thanks for the information :)

I was looking for this place on here but I couldn't spot it. Could you send me a link please? :)
 
Yet another lovely post, fixtures and fittings have been seen as fair game by the magpies for donkeys years, nothing is safe from the buggers,I've seen everything from roofs to slate floors disappear, While folks are willing to buy them they'll keep getting pinched.
 

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