Urban Exploration: Extwistle Hall

We are Urban Explorers, we are not vandals. We take nothing besides photographs and leave nothing but footprints.

Mixed results last weekend; one success which is what you are about to read and one failure in which I couldn’t find a promising abandoned farmhouse, despite great directions.

In the latter case I got some hassle from a half-naked angry bloke telling me, ‘Get off my land’ at one point. All good fun isn’t it?

I sought out this ruined manor more than 2 weeks ago, but a nosey farmer was hanging around and giving me funny looks.

Driving right up to the front door generally does that I have found. I bookmarked it to return and hopefully visit it uninterrupted.

Getting my mental notes from the last failed visit, we parked around half a mile away but in view of our target.

Look through the trees and you can see it. It’s not as far away as it looks. This vantage point is a good place to get there without attracting too much attention.

Extwistle Hall is quite well documented on the internet and a quick scan of Google Maps will take you to it easily so I have no qualms of adding this on the @steemitworldmap.

A walk past the local reservoir took us right up to this 16th century ruin. Yes this is over 400 years old. Talk about a relic. This was built before the Agricultural revolution when peasants were working in the fields for the landowners.

Some information about Extwistle Hall can be found here.

There is so much history in these places and the earliest date I can find for it is 1537. It is reportedly up for sale for around £500,000 and has been empty for over 25 years.

How to gain access is something I won’t tell, but let me just say that it was not difficult. In the spirit of the true Urban Explorer, nothing else will be revealed.

The weather was a little strange. There was some sun but it was threatening to rain at the same time. It made for some interesting photography.

As I got closer, I didn’t feel any bad vibes. Even so, I still get the tingles every time I visit places like this. It’s really the feeling that you are in a place that technically you should not be in.

Note the lovely graffiti on the wall there. Fortunately that was about it and the vandals don’t seem to have done much more to it.

I think this must have been a cellar or outhouse once. The roof has collapsed now revealing all the trash and rubbish left as well as nature taking over.

This is the door to the house. Dare I enter? Yes I did as it seemed study enough with no holes in the floor. Is that the stairs right ahead? It looks like someone had the balls to walk the plank and then the remaining stairs.

This was a three storey building once. Both upper floors have collapsed so I didn’t bother looking for any more stairs. Going up there would result in injury for sure.

Some of the first floor roofing is still intact; did some other explorer fall through the hole I wonder?

Signs of the old power switches. 25 years ago is not so long, but the place has fallen into rapid deterioration.

This is the door that I came through from another angle. I didn’t find any personal belongings here. I think it’s past that point.

Walls ice creams anyone?

Here’s an outside view of the building from one side. It must have been a majestic sight once.

There was an enormous barn next to the manor house. It seems they housed animals, possibly cattle once.

Sometimes I wish I could hide my shadow. It messes up so many photographs.

The main part of the barn was enormous and would make a fine house in its own right. The roof was decent too. It was a little messy underfoot in here so I refrained from having detailed look.

That’s @bingbabe on the left, my reluctant Urban Explorer partner. She was on the phone sending me messages to hurry up. It’s really better to have someone with you in dodgy places like this.

She's wearing running shoes that @techslut would be proud of.

Despite its creepy look and haunted reputation according to some on the internet, I didn’t get the willies while exploring Extwistle Hall.

It was deadly silent inside, but I seem to be getting used to this experience the more I do it.

This is a listed Grade II building so it’s not going anywhere soon. It will take considerable expense to restore it to its former glory, and I hope someone comes along with a cool half million to do so.

References:
https://www.theurbanexplorer.co.uk/
https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/
https://www.whateversleft.co.uk/
https://www.britainsdecays.com/
http://www.urbanxphotography.co.uk/urbex-faqs

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