Stately Home/Hall - Teeside/Darlington area

[Andy]

Not sure of the exact location of this one as I wasn't doing the driving but I'll find out - It's near a small village anyway. Huge house, with 4 floors (including basement) and an attic, most of the upper floor rooms are now empty. Has apparently been a nursing home and a monastery/religious school type thing in the past, There's still evidence remaining of both so that sounds about right. It has been badly modernised in the past but there's still plenty of original character and features remaining.

Front of the building:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/interzone_inc/Urban%20Exploration/House/house1.jpg

Main Hall. impressive stonework and marble:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/interzone_inc/Urban%20Exploration/House/house2.jpg

One of the living rooms, complete with baths:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/interzone_inc/Urban%20Exploration/House/house3.jpg

Main stairway:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/interzone_inc/Urban%20Exploration/House/house11.jpg

Impressive stained glass window:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/interzone_inc/Urban%20Exploration/House/house10.jpg

Attic was huge, with loads of corridoors leading off to other sub-rooms.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/interzone_inc/Urban%20Exploration/House/house14.jpg

Conservatory/Sun lounge slightly overgrown...
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/interzone_inc/Urban%20Exploration/House/house8.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/interzone_inc/Urban%20Exploration/House/house4.jpg

Lift, not working sadly:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/interzone_inc/Urban%20Exploration/House/house5.jpg

Basement pictures to follow.

[Andy]

The Basement - a very odd collection of rooms. Low ceilings, cheap chipboard covering the original brick walls, absolutely pitch black and creepy as fuck!

Ovens/kilns or maybe fridge type storage shelves:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/interzone_inc/Urban%20Exploration/House/house12.jpg

Some kind of secure storage room or prison cell - one of the two! :eek:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/interzone_inc/Urban%20Exploration/House/house9.jpg

Display case - Hard to say what this was exactly used for, the morbid thought was that it was some kind of nursing home era display case for bodies for viewing by relatives. Possibly something a lot more innocent though...
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/interzone_inc/Urban%20Exploration/House/house6.jpg

Stone coffin/tomb in the 'crypt' - absolutely ancient and most definitely made before the house was built. Only dust left inside now though... I'd love to know who it belonged to, there were no markings visible.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/interzone_inc/Urban%20Exploration/House/house7.jpg