Tales of the Urban Explorer: The Dairy Farm House
I had to pixelate a few images of "The Dairy Farm House" as I would rather not have it further violated.
This one was one lucky find, or maybe not so lucky depending on how you look at things and was a random drive-pass.
I do know the real name of this 'for sale' property and for that reason, it made me uncomfortable to peek inside. It was formally a house with a dairy farm, presumably open to the public.
The last time it sold was in 2014 for over £500,000 and for whatever reason the new owner decided to let it rot away until recently. Quite normal behaviour I would say.
We quickly vaulted the low wall and didn't have any problem accessing the former 'showrooms'.
Inside was lots of crap. Beds, cabinets, shelving all broken up, as well as the odd sofa. I was starting to think this used to be an old MFI, not a milk factory.
Who would leave their baby pictures behind?
I had to watch my footing lest I tripped over the old clothing and other miscellaneous shit.
"The Interrogation Chair" is a common sight within old buildings. It has doubtlessly hosted many a deceased tormented prisoner.
It does say 'Farm Shop'. Could it be they changed their business to shelves and furniture at a later date?
The stories that plastic chair could tell us.
Some good sense by the owners, or more likely they were forced to add the sign. Indoor smoking has been banned in the UK since 2007.
Could it be a trainee abandoned hospital in the making?
There were quite a few rooms and small buildings most with little to see.
Jean-Claude has seen a little too much sunlight I feel.
The sofa would have made for a refreshing break if some bastard had not nicked the cushions.
It was now a question of scouting out the main course and ascertaining any weakness.
It's amazing what people will stack up, and climb to get in an upstairs window. One slip, or one movement of all that stuff and you are looking at a hospital.
It used to be a sliding door but is now securely filled with concrete blocks. Smashing the glass isn't going to help so why bother?
Up the drainpipe? Possible but then where.., we don’t break or smash open anything.
…and there it was. On the bin, cast a self-weightlessness spell and you're up and in. I left my spell book at home, goddamit.
@anidiotexplores wasted no time, and was up there and disappearing like a monkey on steroids. Oh jeez, I must be insane.., here we go.
I could see the lovely 10ft drop below and if this balsa-wood makeshift roof was not going to collapse then it would be a miracle.
Slowly or take it fast. It was somewhere in between. I am past doing anything fast in today’s world.
An astonished @anidiotexplores greeted me at the open window with his jaw semi-dropped. Don't underestimate my climbing skills, they get better every day!
From the first few seconds, I was underwhelmed. This house was in the initial stages of refurbishment.
If I had known, I would not have bothered. I don’t knowingly trespass anywhere that is being renovated…, but…, if it’s a mistake I may as well make the best of things and look around.
You can always tell; the panelling missing and seeing bare brick walls does give it away.
It did smell of the homeless but without sleeping bags.
We are not the first to risk our lives with that dodgy roof. If there’s no cock graffiti, then there’s something amiss.
The view from the top of the stairs is akin to a horror move. New windows and it will be good as new.
The attic was suffering a little from green mold and water damage, as are most abandoned places.
Little remained in "The Dairy Farm House" and what was left was stacked up together. If they are doing some work on it then it's in the early stages.
"The Dairy Farm House" is very salvageable, needs some new windows or that roof destroying to stop the vandals from getting in and creating more cocks on the wall.
Crawling backward and praying that I was 30 lbs lighter, I managed to get a foot on the bin, and we left with me feeling a mixture of both gratification and guilt.
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I wonder how many spray painted dicks you've seen in your life time? 🤔 Must be a lot. People really love drawing disks.
The floor with the clothing and miscellaneous shit is like a 3D Jackson Pollock painting. Cool!
It made it real.., without that I would have been concerned 😀
This is more like an abandoned building, with the thing I'm seeing, the diary farmhouse needs a lot of furnishing if it will be useful again...
Just imagining what the place has turned to, and why was it abandoned in the first place...?
You took tye risk to enter inside, requires to be careful... Hopefully, maybe someday, the place will be renovated.
It could well be fully renovated now. My visit was some time ago. Now COVID has all but gone, renovations are taking place everywhere.
Oh! That's good to know ...
In my opinion, the new owner is only after the location of the land and a few years later will make a little profit from the increase in the price of the land. That's why the building is just left alone and never used.
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There is always a sense of curiosity when looking at a building that has been abandoned for a long time.
For some people, this will bring its own satisfaction. Some are even addicted. There is no sense of wanting to own and occupy it. Just a desire to restore curiosity about what had happened there.
For some others, they even come there at night and become objects in search of scary ghosts.
There are plenty who do this, I am not one of them.
I've been expecting it @slobberchops
You are definitely not one of them.
I advise you to visit the place at night, surely the results of the photo object will be very different. Will you do it?
Its not often you see a graffiti cock pointing downward. Thats special.
Jean Claude Van Damme, you couldn't move for his movies at one point!
At the time they seemed good, now quite cheesy as is most of the 80's!
Yeah, it's dangerous ground to look at old movies from the eighties you were fond of!
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Cock graffiti on wall and two mattresses on the ground, points in something :)
It never crossed my mind, honest!
A lot of accumulated junk there. I've seen what a hoarder house can be like. Don't want to get like that. Looks like it could make for a decent house, but going to cost a lot to do up. We just spend a load on a house to do a lot less than that needs.
Me too, many! I think nobody wants to take them on once the hoarder dies, and so a percentage of capsules are hoarder houses.
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why buy the cow if you can visit the milk farm for free... while enjoying the grafitti art !LOL
They should have stopped smoking beyond that point. I think that was why catastrophe struck.
The 'No Smoking' pic is probably the best of the lot. You have to take what you can get 😀
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This place needs a major overhaul, I get goosebumps when I look at it. Abandoned building is very scary
What a cool building this is! I'm trying to figure out what they werd using it for?
I hope they do renovate and use it for a house.
The graffiti is almost non existant.
Only a few people are mad enough to 'try' the dodgy roof. The outhouses were far more interesting than the main building. Everything of interest had been removed.
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luminous yellow balls, that's a first! well the news is it is still standing and still up for sale. It is in a prime location on a good piece of land, guess ut must be listed or something otherwise it would be snapped up and flattened.
I was hoping to would be renovated by now what with covid all but gone.., I have walked away from countless reno-jobs.
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Hi Slobberchops, happy to read your climbing skills were up to the task although a bit of risk is always with you. Interesting pictures that seem worth the adventure. Thanks for this :-)
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again a great view behind the scene of this urbex. A few more posts like this and you will be able to buy the best of this houses and do something cool with them.....
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That interrogator chair picture is pretty eerie.
Have you ever yourself found the desire to deface any of these buildings? I mean, someone left behind dick-graffitti. What about leaving behind a chalk-person-outline by the interrogator chair? I think it'd be funny, anyway.
adventures such as this is nothing but a deep exploration. Abandoned buildings will always be eroded with some sort of puzzling questions like why the place was suddenly left and neglected in the first place?
The last time it sold was in 2014 for over £500,000 and for whatever reason the new owner decided to let it rot away until recently. Quite normal behaviour I would say — quite normal behavior, 😅 I see what you did there , pure sacarsm!
The inside looks pretty messy. The new owner should prepare to do a whole lot of cleaning. The building however looks nice from the outside. Thanks for showing us round.
Nice old building needs a refurb back to new ......
Intense energy and images here my friend! I love the quality of the pictures and how you took the essence of each thing inside this house! Amazing post!
Nice space to renovate, make re habitable given time could be quite a nice place once all the crap is removed and cleaned up.
Interesting meander through not too old purpose built structure, nobody leaves baby photos, behind perhaps coming back at a later date to scrummage through their mess.
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It's still for sale I have been told, perhaps too expensive?
Perhaps more wrong with foundations than meets the eye, oh greed another valid reason, want more than it's worth!
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Another day and no spirit. Have you guys ever encountered one?
Not yet.. now that would be interesting.
Add ghost hunting to your list of exploration, the thought of meeting an other-worldly creature does seem intriguing.
Sadly the buyer that 'let it rot' was probably not a someone but a something and probably simply sat in a portfolio. This sort of things happens all the time, in fact in USA houses get bought up sometimes entire streets in small towns, and sit as data in a portfolio but left to rot and ruin the community which they exist, and outside of any price any local could afford. Ah well...did you say what it is selling for now? Thanks for these amazing properties you photograph @slobberchops
I can't say I have looked, though its probably still over-priced. I have seen mansions for sale that are dropping apart, and then torched. If they wanted half a million, then what's the value after the torching? They are left as shells but due to their protected status, can't be demolished.