Sunday 19th March 2023, 9.35am (day 4,224)
I drive past this house fairly often as it lies on most routes northwards from home. It’s certainly lived in on a permanent basis. I have always admired its glorious isolation, and what it must take to survive in reasonable condition 1,280 feet/380m up in the air in the middle of a peat moor. But would I want to live there myself? Not really. (If you want to check out its position on the Ordnance Survey map it lies at about grid reference SD910286.)
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My Grandparents owned this house when I was a child. Must have been mid 1980s. They did move after a few years due to the extreme isolation, but I have always enjoyed fond memories of the house and playing on the moors. They owned a small patch of land on the other side of the road and I remember having bonfires there on bonfire night. They used to own a large guard dog and it lived in the stables at the side of the house. We used to put on puppet shows and the dog, Rex always had to have a ticket. I always feel a pull back to this house and have driven past a number of times as I live relatively close by. Jen
I pass by it reasonably often in the car and always feel it would be an amazing place to live — when the weather was nice. In a winter storm I imagine it’s a pretty harsh environment. Thanks for your comment 🙂
yes you’re right about the weather. Its lovely wandering the moors with all the heather up there and I loved the barren ruggedness of it. But in winter they would get snowed in so in the end it was too much.