Frith Park was a large imposing manor house located in a leafy part of Surrey a stones throw from the M25 which latterly found use as the headquarters of a chemical manufacturing company hence it's other moniker 'The Acid House'.
Frith Park Estate comprised a collection of buildings most notably a 19th Century manor house (locally listed), along with a 16th Century farmhouse, four cottages, agricultural buildings and commercial buildings plus a walled garden all situated in a 104-hectare plot of land. The South Wales Chemical Company who manufactured inks and other equipment for the printing industry took over the estate in the 1950s and used it as manufacturing space as well as offices and storage. The company only leased the buildings and the owner wasn't one for general upkeep as at some point the original roof was removed and a large canopy of corrugated sheeting and scaffold was constructed over the top of the house. The farmhouse remained in private hands and indeed was still occupied at the time of my visit with chickens running around in their pens as we walked past.
The house used to have a load more stuff in it than it did when I went here. A few years before it was filled with bottles of chemicals and acids and other such nasty stuff however not too much remained inside by the time I came around - in fact at the time of my visit it was a total shot in the dark as to whether it was even still there or not as I hadn't seen or heard anything from it for a few years. As luck would have it it was still there, and we managed to quickly find a fairly discreet way in once on the property.
Standing in the hollow space left by the removal of the roof was a really cool experience, it was such a chilled spot to spend time relaxing, listening to the sounds of the traffic thundering down the nearby M25. We managed to get around all of the main buildings here, save for the ground floor areas of one of the commercial buildings which appeared to be in current use by the farm as it had a brand new pickup truck parked inside it! I visited here a couple of times during April of 2015, and I was sad to hear it had been demolished in 2017 - it seemed all the grand plans for saving it came to nought.
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Frith Park Estate comprised a collection of buildings most notably a 19th Century manor house (locally listed), along with a 16th Century farmhouse, four cottages, agricultural buildings and commercial buildings plus a walled garden all situated in a 104-hectare plot of land. The South Wales Chemical Company who manufactured inks and other equipment for the printing industry took over the estate in the 1950s and used it as manufacturing space as well as offices and storage. The company only leased the buildings and the owner wasn't one for general upkeep as at some point the original roof was removed and a large canopy of corrugated sheeting and scaffold was constructed over the top of the house. The farmhouse remained in private hands and indeed was still occupied at the time of my visit with chickens running around in their pens as we walked past.
The house used to have a load more stuff in it than it did when I went here. A few years before it was filled with bottles of chemicals and acids and other such nasty stuff however not too much remained inside by the time I came around - in fact at the time of my visit it was a total shot in the dark as to whether it was even still there or not as I hadn't seen or heard anything from it for a few years. As luck would have it it was still there, and we managed to quickly find a fairly discreet way in once on the property.
Standing in the hollow space left by the removal of the roof was a really cool experience, it was such a chilled spot to spend time relaxing, listening to the sounds of the traffic thundering down the nearby M25. We managed to get around all of the main buildings here, save for the ground floor areas of one of the commercial buildings which appeared to be in current use by the farm as it had a brand new pickup truck parked inside it! I visited here a couple of times during April of 2015, and I was sad to hear it had been demolished in 2017 - it seemed all the grand plans for saving it came to nought.
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