ÿþ <TITLE>The Derelict Miscellany :: Graylands Farm</TITLE> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="derelict, abandoned, farm, graylands, dairy, barns, langhurstwood, warnham, horsham"> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="A photographic tour of a disused Victorian dairy farm near Horsham in Sussex"> <META NAME="author" CONTENT="D. A. 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The complex comprised a row of cottages, cowsheds, barns, stabling and later cattle stalls.<br><br> <center> <img alt="Sign and ivy" height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/graylands.jpg" border=0> <img alt="The farm cottages" height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/frontage.jpg" border=0> <img alt="The backs of the cottages" height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/house.jpg" border=0> <img alt="Greenhouse" height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/grnhouse.jpg" border=0> <br><br> The cottages were empty but well kept in December 2004, and have now been refurbished and re-occupied. <br><br> <img alt="Tiles" height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/tiles.jpg" border=0> <img alt="Stables" height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/stables.jpg" border=0> <img alt="A sign" height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/notice.jpg" border=0> <img alt="Stable" height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/rafters.jpg" border=0> <br> <img alt="Milking parlour" height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/b1.jpg border=0> <img alt="stables" height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/Copyofyard.jpg" border=0> <img alt="Windchimes" height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/smash.jpg" border=0> <img alt="Milking parlour" height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/dairy.jpg" border=0> <br> <br> The main shed looked like someone had attempted to convert it into some kind of bar or club and sported new windows, French doors and a partition with firedoors bearing the sign "The 'BOB FARMER'" - pity we missed last orders by several years. <br> <br> <img alt="Cow" height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/Graffiti.jpg border=0> <img alt="Fire extinguisher sign" height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/fireext.jpg border=0> <img alt="Bob farmer partition" height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/bob2.jpg border=0> <img alt="Sign" height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/bar.jpg border=0> <br> <img alt="Yard" height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/viewout.jpg border=0> <img alt="French windows" height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/frenchdoor.jpg border=0> <img alt="No clue." height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/thing.jpg border=0> <img alt="Anglepoise lamp" height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/lamp.jpg border=0> <br><br> The newer steel and asbestos buildings on the edges of the site creaked rattled loudly in the wind. In a poor state of repair, they have since been cleared away. <br><br> <br> <img alt="Collapsed barn" height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/collapse.jpg border=0> <img alt="Skeletal barn" height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/skeleton.jpg border=0> <img alt="Tattered" height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/tatters.jpg border=0> <img alt="Stalls" height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/stalls2.jpg border=0> <br> <img alt="Manufacurer's label on the stalls" height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/langmead.jpg border=0> <img alt="Exfoliating van body" height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/british.jpg border=0> <img alt="Desks in the van." height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/vandesks.jpg border=0> <img alt="Warning sign on the van door" height=174 width=232 src=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/warning.jpg border=0> <br><br> By May 2006 the 19th Century farm buildings had been stripped of their roofs and gutted, the cottages had been surrounded by high wooden fences, refurbished and sold and most of the newer buildings had been cleared away.<br> <br> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/gr1.jpg','', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;" HREF="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/gr1.jpg"><img alt="The Refurbished Cottages." height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/gr1.jpg" border=1></A> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/PIC_0150.jpg','', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;" HREF="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/PIC_0150.jpg"><img alt="Unroofed barns." height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/PIC_0150.jpg" border=1></A> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/PIC_0151.jpg','', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;" HREF="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/PIC_0151.jpg"><img alt="The central yard." height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/PIC_0151.jpg" border=1></A> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/PIC_0157.jpg','', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;" HREF="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/PIC_0157.jpg"><img alt="." height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/PIC_0157.jpg" border=1></A> <br> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/gr3.jpg','', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;" HREF="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/gr3.jpg"><img alt="Inside one of the barns, completely unrecognisable now." height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/gr3.jpg" border=1> </A> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/PIC_0153.jpg','', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;" HREF="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/gr3.jpg"><img alt="Site of the Bob Farmer." height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/PIC_0153.jpg" border=1> </A> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/PIC_0152.jpg','', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no');return false;" HREF="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/PIC_0152.jpg"><img alt="One of the rooms, I think this was the one with the ceiling thing." height=174 width=232 src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/PIC_0152.jpg" border=1></A> <a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/storau-james/Horsham_Rural/PIC_0155.jpg','', 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