BEFORE AND AFTER

More on the "Roofless Ruin".
Some pictures taken a couple of months before we moved in, when we came up to measure up. It rained 2" that day but the vendor was very kind and we stayed close by the house, being given a light lunch and plenty tea and coffee.

The two views show the inside of this building, from which the roof had been stripped (and the slates sold) and the floor boards taken up and burnt. Then it became a dump.
It had formally been the "Dairyman's cottage" and we met a local lady who remembered living there during some of her school holidays and confirmed some of the details we had been piecing together of how it was - main entrance at the front, transverse hallway with single set of rooms opening from it to the rear.

This view is from the rear, in the courtyard, and you can see what had been the front door - the recess on the left, above the gate. you can also see how the doorway lintel is sagging and quite dangerous.

This shows the junk that had been dumped. Away to the left is another room in which quite sturdy trees were growing, as well as many weeds. This last rook was double-story, being much lower down (there are steps down to it) ands allowing room for a bedroom above, of which can still be seen the fireplace though there is no trace of the floor.