Zombie Manor - June 2015

Welcome to Zombie Manor, you will want to leave.

 

Built in 1759, a Grade II listed county house built in a Georgian style formally used as a country residence, a residential home for the handicapped and an illegal cannabis farm of late.

Oh, nearly forgot to mention to mention it was used as a zombie holdout after Chester and Warrington finally fell to the zombie horde of 2010.

Now sitting rapidly rotting away, Daresbury Hall is sadly clinging on for dear life and reflects everything that is wrong with the preservation of buildings in Britain. The main house is death on a stick with floors waiting to drop and holes aplenty. So lets have a mooch.

 

We headed for the main house, via the pool







Inside the house, it was hot (on a cool day) and smelly, with ceilings down and rotten floors, death on a stick in most parts.

 

 





The Cellar was weird with a drying room with, well white stuff...



 

And out to the outbuildings

 



















Visited with Zer081, following a failed earlier visit with both Judderman and Zer081 earlier on in the year which whilst Zombie free had loons with splat guns.

A tad disappointing, I'd give it 5/10 including an extra 2 points for the pool.

Photos later used in a Daily Mail article



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Winstanley Hall - February 2013

First good weather in ages, so myself and the intrepid explorer Urban Spaceman went for a leisurely drive over to pie eater land, Wigan.

We opted for the long walk round as part of the government's anti obesity campaign, anything else just wasn't cricket.

Built in the 16th century, this Grade II listed building is being left to rot, having been empty since the 1960s - the state of this building is truly shocking.

 





A rather grand looking building, we navigated the sprawling brambles round to the courtyard.



The courtyards centrepiece being a rather large statue, fenced off to save it from further decline.

 



Sadly the rest of the place is in a shocking state of repair, considering parts of the building date back to Tudor times.





Internally the floors are going and gone, ceilings are down, fireplaces stolen, acrow props litter the building holding the place together. I'd seen photos from 2011 with wood paneled rooms, sadly now all stripped and gone.







This stone staircase had a bit of a wobble.

 









We decided to leave before the place fell down around our ears, floors wobbled and cracked beneath our feet, time to leave.



Next stop Chernobyl.....