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Not the most exciting exploration ever, but quite atmospheric in it's way. The sort of house you might expect to see in Chiswick, but 1300 feet up in the Southern Uplands of Scotland.
The Scottish hills are full of abandoned buildings of one sort or another, but this one seems a bit bizarre. Going by the architecture it can't have been built much earlier than the 1950s; I once lived in an almost identical house which was built in 1964. It was apparently a shepherd's house, but bear in mind that Land Rovers had been around for at least 10 years when this was built. It was becoming derelict in the early 1980s, so must have been abandoned for a while beforehand.
It is reached by a track that climbs 2 miles out of the valley, accessible by
4x4 and not much else. You come up through a fairly typical, attractive lowland Scottish glen, to find this incongruous derelict bunglalow.
Dunroamin
Skylight
There is a climber's bothy next door, so all the timber floors, joists, ceilings etc have gone for firewood leaving very little holding the roof up. The entire house has been totally gutted, and is in a terrible state. You can just about work out what each room was for, including a creepy little mortuary type thing which is accessed from outside the house and has no internal doors. It was probably for cutting up dead sheep or something.
Where they cut the bodies up
Open Plan
A room with a view
Kitchen (with basketball hoop?)
The whole house is full of rubbish from the bothy, and the master bedroom is full of jobbies. I was up there tonight taking these pictures, and the place has a genuinely creepy atmosphere about it, especially as it is getting dark.
Scary rabbit
Sorry about some of the blurry pictures, I had water running down my back the whole time. If you can see down the valley then it's going to rain, and if you can't then it already is.
The Scottish hills are full of abandoned buildings of one sort or another, but this one seems a bit bizarre. Going by the architecture it can't have been built much earlier than the 1950s; I once lived in an almost identical house which was built in 1964. It was apparently a shepherd's house, but bear in mind that Land Rovers had been around for at least 10 years when this was built. It was becoming derelict in the early 1980s, so must have been abandoned for a while beforehand.
It is reached by a track that climbs 2 miles out of the valley, accessible by
4x4 and not much else. You come up through a fairly typical, attractive lowland Scottish glen, to find this incongruous derelict bunglalow.
Dunroamin
Skylight
There is a climber's bothy next door, so all the timber floors, joists, ceilings etc have gone for firewood leaving very little holding the roof up. The entire house has been totally gutted, and is in a terrible state. You can just about work out what each room was for, including a creepy little mortuary type thing which is accessed from outside the house and has no internal doors. It was probably for cutting up dead sheep or something.
Where they cut the bodies up
Open Plan
A room with a view
Kitchen (with basketball hoop?)
The whole house is full of rubbish from the bothy, and the master bedroom is full of jobbies. I was up there tonight taking these pictures, and the place has a genuinely creepy atmosphere about it, especially as it is getting dark.
Scary rabbit
Sorry about some of the blurry pictures, I had water running down my back the whole time. If you can see down the valley then it's going to rain, and if you can't then it already is.