County Index
By Name : By Type
BRECKNOCK. :
CARDIGAN. :
CARMS. :
CORNWALL :
GLOUCS. :
HANTS. :
SURREY :
SSX. :
UNDISC.
Historically, every county has had its own distinctive style and types of building depending on the needs of its people, economy, underlying geology and raw materials. Although regional differences in architecture have diminished with the age of cheap bulk transport, even today building type can vary widely by region. Here I have listed all of the buildings featured on this site by historical county (pre-1975).
BRECKNOCKSHIRE/SIR FRYCHEINIOG
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Mid Wales Hospital
A large turn-of-the-century psychiatric institution nestled amidst the Brecon Beacons and slowly rotting from the top down after conversion plans fell through in 2008.
(Mid Brecknockshire; Talgarth). |  |
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Trecastle Services & Greystones Motel
An abandoned and trashed roadside motel and restaurant complex last occupied in 2001 by protesters against the burying of diseased sheep carcasses on nearby MOD ranges.
(West Brecknockshire; Llywel). |  |
CARDIGANSHIRE/SIR CEREDIGION
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Capel Blaencaron
An isolated Calvinistic Methodist chapel and parsonage by the side of a mountain road, now converted to a dwelling.
(East Cardiganshire; Tregaron). |  |
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Bronwydd
A gothic fantasy mansion designed in the 1850s by R. K. Penson for the Baronets Lloyd of Bronwydd and abandoned to the elements after the war.
(Southwest Cardiganshire; Llangynllo). |  |
 | Cwmystwyth Lead and Zinc Mines
An extensive mining landscape littered with the shafts, adits, tips and buildings of a lead and zinc mining concern that collapsed in 1921.
(North Cardigansire; Cwmystwyth). |  |
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Derry Ormond Halt (M. & M. R.)
A small but well-preserved Great Western Railway halt on the dismantled Carmarthen and Aberystwyth line.
(South Cardiganshire; Betws Bledrws). |  |
 | Esgair-Mwn Lead and Zinc Mines
The small concern that was Ceredigion's last metal mine reprocessed spoil tips from an earlier leadmining operation for previously discarded zinc until the 1950s. Today much still remains, including the ore dressing mill, mine office, shafts, incline and tramways.
(East Cardiganshire; Pontrhydfendigaid).
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Llanon U.K.W.M.O. Monitoring Post
A bunker built in the late '50s to be used by a team of volunteers to monitor blast effects and fallout patterns in the event of a nuclear attack.
(West Cardiganshire; Llanon). |  |
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Silian National School
A decaying village schoolhouse closed in the 1970s. Latterly used as a village hall, until 2007 it housed a WWII roll of honour.
(South Cardiganshire; Silian). |  |
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St. Matthew's Mission Church
A small church established as a mission of Llanbadarn Fawr in 1871 and closed at an unknown date within the last 15 years. Currently awaiting conversion to a 4 bedroom house.
(North Cardiganshire; Goginan). |  |
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Ysgoldy Gogoyan
A long-closed but well-preserved single room schoolhouse at the centre of a small hamlet in the Teifi Valley.
(South Cardiganshire; Llanfair Clydogau). |  |
CARMARTHENSHIRE/SIR GAERFYRDDIN
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Priory Street Hospital
A derelict hospital in the centre of Carmarthen, founded in 1846 by voluntary contribution as a pauper infirmary and closed in 1996.
(Mid Carmarthenshire; Carmarthen). |  |
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Fferm Tan-y-Foel
An abandoned hill-farmhouse in an advanced state of decay surrounded by semi-derelict farm buildings.
(North Carmarthenshire; Cwmann). |  |
CORNWALL/KERNOW
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Leswidden China Clay Works
An extensive complex of settling tanks, holding containers, kilns and flues used to wash and process china clay until the 1920s.
(West Cornwall; St. Just). |  |
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
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Kingswood Wesleyan Chapel
A roofless Victorian chapel in the suburbs of Bristol. Last used as a dance school and now badly damaged by fire and neglect.
(South Gloucestershire: Kingswood). |  |
HAMPSHIRE
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Portsmouth Greyhound Stadium
An iconic 1930s dog-racing track that closed in 2010, mid season, to make way for an already ailing redevelopment initiative which is turning Tipner into a ghost town. Now being fast destroyed by vandals.
(South Hampshire: Tipner). |  |
SURREY
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Baynards Brickworks
In 1937 the Steetley Chemical Co. began operations at Baynards making batteries and pesticides. Activity on site ceased in 2005 leaving 80 acres of heavily toxic wasteland incorporating a derelict brickworks, chemical laboratories, decontamination plant and a pair of Mid-Victorian cottages standing empty.
(South Surrey; Cranleigh).
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Dorking General Hospital Nurses' Home
Disused nurses' residences on an operational hospital campus including the badly fire damaged former home of the late 19th Century intellectual C.G.B. Allen.
(Mid Surrey; Dorking). |  |
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Elmer's or Almer's Mill
Elmer's Smock Mill was built in 1803 overlooking the village of Ockley and stood for over 140 years before she collapsed without warning in 1944. 62 years on she is slowly being restored to something of her former glory. (South Surrey; Ockley).
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Ewhurst Brick Works
Established in the 1920s and closed in the 1980s, this disused brickworks has found use as a habitat, a playground, a blank canvas and even a fishery.
(South Surrey; Ellen's Green). |  |
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Hollywood Lodge
A badly fire-damaged Georgian mansion latterly used as a hospital annexe and care home, situated within the Epsom Cluster of Mental Hospitals.
(North Surrey; Epsom). |  |
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Laporte Earths
A hellish maze of conveyors, silos, calciners, mills and pipes used to produce granular fuller's earth for the chemical industry and for common cat litter. Closed in 1997, the site also includes offices, laboratories and a working men's club.
(Mid Surrey; Redhill).
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Longhurst Lodge
A derelict Elizabethan Revivial keeper's cottage which stands at the start of an abandoned coachroad leading up to the site of a mansion destroyed by fire in 1979.
(South Surrey; Cranleigh). |  |
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Nutbourne Brickworks
A substantial 1930s brickworks site abandoned by its last operator over ten years ago. The works comprise sheds, workshops, offices and factory buildings, soon to be demolished to make way for houses.
(South Surrey; Hambledon). | .JPG) |
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St. Mary of Pity
A much vandalised 1960s Roman Catholic church and presbytery closed in 2003 and still containing much of the paperwork, furniture and service sheets from when they were last used.
(West Surrey; Burpham). |  |
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Swallow's Tiles Ltd.
A well-preserved small-scale Victorian tile and terra-cotta works which produced handmade clay tiles in the traditional way until forced to close in 2008.
(South Surrey; Cranleigh). |  |
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Tangley Place
A Victorian mansion and later laboratories used by the M.A.F.F. as a field station for animal testing. Closed in 1996, devastated by arson and now demolished.
(West Surrey; Worplesdon). |  |
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West Park Hospital
A sprawling redbrick complex built to house London's insane. West park is the last remaining of the Epsom Cluster, Europe's largest concentration of psychiatric hospitals and is currently awaiting redevelopment.
(North Surrey; Epsom). |  |
SUSSEX
 | Arun G. H. Q. Stop Line
This WWII anti-invasion stop line consisted of anti-tank obstacles, traps, pillboxes and other defences, here is a list with photographs and descriptions of the defences on the stretch of the line from Lower Beeding to Slinfold.
(North Sussex; Horsham). |  |
 | Beedingwood
A remarkable house built in 1876 for philanthropic bacon merchant Thomas Denny. It later became part of a pioneering rehabilitation hospital for people with stress-related mental disorders. It closed in 1983 and was burned down in 2007 after these photographs were taken.
(Mid Sussex; Colgate). |  |
 | Chichester High School for Girls
The redundant campus of a still active school which was founded here in 1908. Latterly used as a teacher training centre, it is now derelict and partly inhabited by homeless people and drug users.
(West Sussex; Chichester). |  |
 | Cocking Limeworks
After more than a century of lime production, Cocking Limeworks closed in 1999. Most of the buildings, machinery and heavy plant left behind are now being reclaimed by nature.
(West Sussex; Cocking). |  |
 | Cuckmere Haven Anti-Invasion Defences
Second World War anti-infantry pillboxes, gun emplacements, anti-tank obstacles, ditches, pillboxes and support buildings built to guard against anticipated Nazi landings at Cuckmere Haven.
(South Sussex; Westdean). |  |
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Ebernoe Common Brick & Tile Works
The restored remains of a small 18th century brickworks including kiln, pits and moulding shed on Ebernoe Common.
(West Sussex; Ebernoe).
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 | Graylands Farm
A 19th Century dairy farm in the Sussex Weald. The complex comprised a row of cottages, cowsheds, barns, stabling and later cattle stalls, all now converted to housing.
(North Sussex; Horsham). |  |
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Hangman Barn
This skeletal barn presents a gaunt edifice and has a grim past; it was once the place of execution for those condemned to death.
(Mid Sussex; Itchingfield). |  |
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Horsham U.K.W.M.O. Monitoring Post
A small bunker built in the 1960s to be used by a team of volunteers as a base from which to monitor blast effects and fallout patterns and to warn the public and local authorities of immediate danger in the event of a nuclear attack.
(Mid Sussex; Horsham). |  |
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Rowhook School
A long disused single-room Sussex schoolhouse later used as a mission room. Subject of an ultimately pointless legal battle in the 1980s, it now stands empty and decaying.
(North Sussex; Rowhook). |  |
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Stammerham Junction
A large tract of derelict land comprising the overgrown platforms of Christ's Hospital Station, a disused barn, an old railway cutting and two derelict cottages.
(Mid Sussex; Christ's Hospital).
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UNDISCLOSED
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Pseudonymous Mill
An eighteenth century flour mill and attatched house extended in 1914. Last used by an agricultural merchant's business. Bought by developers in 2007, it has apparently been abandoned mid-conversion.
(Undisclosed). |  |
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The Convent of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
A Victorian convent and grounds vacated by the community of carmelite nuns in 1994, with a once beautiful chapel devastated by deliberate fire in 2009.
(Undisclosed). |  |
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