Sup guys.
Only just getting this report up now so it can go along with my video but I visited towards the end of December.
History:
In 1833 this grand house was built for a large family (The Allasons), in 1968 it became a school for rural students of the area and in 2015 it became fully abandoned.
The house was built around 1833, it was designed by James Ingram of Kilmarnock for a Mr James Allason however the house has been extended over the years, not much is known about Mr Allason except that he ranked highly in the military and had some involvement in politics.
The estate was then bought by the County Council and opened as a secondary school in 1952. The school took in boarding students as well as day pupils from 1968 until its closure in June 1973.
The house was bought by a Chinese man in 2014 but he died suddenly from a brain tumour back in August 2015, the result of this was that the plans to renovate the building into a Chinese language and cultural centre were held up, all work stopped at the building back in 2015 and it has been left derelict ever since.
Explore:
We went to the house in the late morning, being careful not to be seen by the people in the little house that is next to the gates (people still live in there), we drove down to the house, initially parking out the front but I thought that would be a silly idea so I shoved my car around the back... I'm glad I did that because we heard someone outside the house when we were upstairs, luckily they never walked around the back
- We found a way in which was very easy to be honest with you, I was expecting a mission to get inside.
On with the pics...
The building itself is nothing short of stunning, how this can just be left to sit there and rot is beyond me...
Once inside we were greeted by a maze of corridors, many of which were dark and gloomy but the building was graffiti-less and wasn't heavily vandalised!
We came across this room in the basement which was very odd, there was two little "pods" which faced eachother with glass to look through, does anyone know what this would be for? - Very weird...
We decided to head upstairs which took us to the ground floor and the "grand entrance"
There wasn't too much to see on the ground floor so we went upstairs towards where the building work was being done back in 2015 when it all came to a halt...
Thanks for looking folks!
Would appreciate your time to check out my video which has all the cool stuff like history, drone footage, etc.
Only just getting this report up now so it can go along with my video but I visited towards the end of December.
History:
In 1833 this grand house was built for a large family (The Allasons), in 1968 it became a school for rural students of the area and in 2015 it became fully abandoned.
The house was built around 1833, it was designed by James Ingram of Kilmarnock for a Mr James Allason however the house has been extended over the years, not much is known about Mr Allason except that he ranked highly in the military and had some involvement in politics.
The estate was then bought by the County Council and opened as a secondary school in 1952. The school took in boarding students as well as day pupils from 1968 until its closure in June 1973.
The house was bought by a Chinese man in 2014 but he died suddenly from a brain tumour back in August 2015, the result of this was that the plans to renovate the building into a Chinese language and cultural centre were held up, all work stopped at the building back in 2015 and it has been left derelict ever since.
Explore:
We went to the house in the late morning, being careful not to be seen by the people in the little house that is next to the gates (people still live in there), we drove down to the house, initially parking out the front but I thought that would be a silly idea so I shoved my car around the back... I'm glad I did that because we heard someone outside the house when we were upstairs, luckily they never walked around the back
- We found a way in which was very easy to be honest with you, I was expecting a mission to get inside.On with the pics...
The building itself is nothing short of stunning, how this can just be left to sit there and rot is beyond me...
Once inside we were greeted by a maze of corridors, many of which were dark and gloomy but the building was graffiti-less and wasn't heavily vandalised!
We came across this room in the basement which was very odd, there was two little "pods" which faced eachother with glass to look through, does anyone know what this would be for? - Very weird...
We decided to head upstairs which took us to the ground floor and the "grand entrance"
There wasn't too much to see on the ground floor so we went upstairs towards where the building work was being done back in 2015 when it all came to a halt...
Thanks for looking folks!
Would appreciate your time to check out my video which has all the cool stuff like history, drone footage, etc.
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