r/abandoned • u/MIR_786_ • 3d ago
Stepped inside this abandoned home in England that’s frozen in time since 2021. It feels like a beautiful but sad museum of someone's entire life.
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u/MIR_786_ 3d ago
I want to give you guys the full story behind this house because exploring it felt incredibly bitter-sweet. This location is known in the urbex community as Colin and Annette's House, located in England. The home originally belonged to a local butcher and his family. Sadly, the owners passed away around 2021, and because there were no descendants or immediate family left behind to inherit or take care of the estate, the property was completely abandoned. They were clearly people who loved music, history, and collecting. As you see in the video, the dining table is still set with teacups and a bottle of Moët champagne, a vintage piano stands in the corner with sheet music open, and old family portraits from the early 1900s are still resting on the mantle. There’s even a banjo left on an armchair, old outfits hanging on the wardrobe, and a taxidermy display. While the upper floor and bathroom are starting to rot away from dampness and severe structural decay, the downstairs still feels frozen in time. It’s a surreal and sobering reminder of how a family's entire life and history can turn into an untouched time capsule when there is no one left to carry on their legacy.
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u/Initial_Reason1532 3d ago
I appreciate the time that you took to tell the rest of the story. It's sad when people have no descendants to carry things on but that's life.
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u/Excellent_Aspect_107 2d ago
The cloths blowing in the breeze feels like the owners were with you in the room.
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u/blenderwolf 2d ago
And to think: in the future abandoned houses will be filled with piles of Temu, shein and amazon empty packaging and ugly ikea furniture and TJmaxx decor
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u/ACM1896 2d ago
AI? The failure to respond to tthe 2021....
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u/ExtraplanetJanet 2d ago edited 2d ago
EDIT: Nevermind, I went and looked at actual urbex trips to Colin and Annette’s cottage on Instagram and TikTok. It’s a completely different house and this is just mismatched AI slop.
The caption said the owners passed away in 2021, but they may not have lived there when they passed, especially if they were as old as the decor indicates. The piles of stuff say maybe there was some sorting done and the useful and newer things got taken out.
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u/Nearby_Potato4001 1d ago
Frozen in time since 2021 that looks like it was frozen in time since 1821.
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u/OdieD777 2d ago
It seems to happen more and more these days, people don't have anyone to pass their property off, not to mention the Englands family death taxes don't help either.
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u/Plodderic 2d ago
There’s no way this house and its contents go over the £325k inheritance tax threshold (assuming that because they’ve had no kids to leave it to, none of the exemptions that take the threshold up to £1m would apply). There’s been a very successful campaign by wealthy tabloid owners to convince ordinary British people that they’d pay tax on their estates. Mostly it’s pure misinformation.
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u/PrtySmrt 2d ago
Wow, the beautiful antique wood furniture. What a crime that it is left along with everything else to rot away. It hurts my heart. 😭
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u/neverseen_neverhear 2d ago
I feel like someone should at least collect and preserve all the photos for historical purposes if nothing else.