Many older dwellings are abandoned because of the difficulties and expense of restoration. Often built in the most suitable or sheltered zone and usually snuggling comfortably into the landscape, they are replaced by highly efficient dwellings in not 'quite the right place'.
Uploaded to Geograph by Derek Mayes on 19 September 2011
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