My final location that day was somewhat strange. It was a large old farm house on the outskirts of the capital region. In old Google Street View Pictures from 2009 it was already clearly abandoned. Plastic was covering its windows and its front door was shut with boards.
It soon turned out that the area had changed quite a bit since the Google car had been there.
Once this was one of the largest houses in the village and on a very large yard. Now the yards and fields had been sold to build a new residential area around this old beauty.
Although I usually cover all details, which reveal the location of the buildings I visit, there’s no need to do that here anymore. The blue sign is from a real estate broker, who advertises this as the chance to renovate this to a future home.
But nobody will renovate it. It’s in such a bad condition, that demolition permit had already been granted, when I arrived. The building was listed on the detail plan to be retained, but in the end it was in such a bad condition, that this was impossible. Plans are currently underway to enable the construction of two new houses on the lot.
As you can see, the neighbours are very, very close.
The back door is open.
Well, in fact both back doors were open. The other one has stairs leading up, the other one led to the ground floor.
The signs have once read private property and unauthorized access denied and tresspassers will be fined. But somebody’s covered the texts, so they don’t apply anymore, do they?
Unfortunately the neighbours were outside enjoying the spring and having a barbecue. I didn’t wish to risk being seen this time.