manor house

Visited: 2025 Silwood Park is a name many explorers will recognise — a sprawling site with layers of academic history, military use, Victorian architecture and more recent scientific research. Hidden among the laboratories and accommodation blocks sits the old manor house, now long disused and...

I know this one’s nothing new, and been covered before, but thought I’d give it a share anyway, hope that’s ok. History History is very scarce online for this one, The Pentecostal Assemblies of God Church, a manor house converted into a place of worship in South Wingfield, likely closed in the...

Intro Hi all, Thanks to previous reports on 28DL, I thought I'd check this one out and wasn't disappointed. I wont go into the history of Headley Court, @mookster has done a decent write up of that in his report so check that out if you'd like to know more... Visited with @Shlum Le Flame and...

ROWFANT HOUSE, SUSSEX THE HISTORY The Grade II listed Manor House is a mixture of 15th, 16th, 18th and 19th century architecture. Until fairly recently the estate had been running functions and events including weddings, conferences and afternoon tea since the 1960s. From 1848 -1962 the...

Firstly, please note this was a permission visit- unable to visit without permission. This is because the site is still used. This location is set within Crowhurst. The upstairs of a wedding venue and pub has been left to decay and become a state of disrepair. Some history of the location. I...

History: Headley Court was an Elizabethan farm house bought by the Cunliffe family, from Tyrrell's Wood, Leatherhead. They later sold this farm house and built in 1899 the imposing mansion at the centre of Headley Court to the north, namely under Lord Cunliffe, who was Chairman of the Bank of...

Corking Manor House - Derbyshire - September 2019 Dont know anything about the history of this place and not managed to find anything on google, its just around the corner from Wingfield Manor. I believe is use to be a old Christian gathering place. Got the tip off a photographer. The...

Hi guys, I thought I’d make a report on my visit to Oakland’s park Manor House.. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!! There is a crazy neighbour. We walked through some land with horses on it and got to the other side. We heard a males voice ask what we are doing so we said what do you mean he got angry...

First of all I'd like to say Hi! This is my first post here, I've always been interested in Urbex and followed the site for a while. I moved to Northern Ireland three years ago and a few days ago I finally got to do a explore here... A little history on Cairndhu House... Cairndhu House was...

Great Tew Manor was originally built around 1730, with extensions added in 1834 and 1856. Shortly after the First World War the owner died and the house was left empty until the 1960s. A further period of neglect in the 80s left most of the house uninhabitable. One end of the house has now been...

Hello again, OS. Second report today :) This one definitely needed a revisit as I needed to get some proper shots, was not pleased with mine the first time. Some history on the place (copied from my original report): For all their fame and social clout, the Harlechs seemed forever dogged by...

Hello again y'all. Now this one is really special.. After researching a lead, Andy de Kay and I were getting pretty excited about what we could potentially see. Pretty relaxed explore, however we were threatened to have our cameras smashed up if we didn't delete all our photos.. "Format that...

HISTORY Carmel College was a predominantly Jewish co-educational boarding school in England operating between 1948 and 1997. It was first situated at Greenham Common near Newbury and then at Mongewell Park near Wallingford, Oxfordshire. It was Europe's only Jewish boarding school. It also had a...

Just one of the locations on the second day of the Smelly Sheep weekend (name decided by AndyK!). ;) Really enjoyed this one, been wanting to see it for a long time, sure some things have gone missing over time the the carpets and the furniture but this place still holds enough features to be...

This is a dominating Neoclassical Grade II listed mansion situated in Shropshire. It was originally constructed in 1735 and stands in a magnificent parkland of nearly 1500 acres of land. The mansion is famed for it's four giant iconic columns and was once owned by royalty. It's nickname comes...