Lost home of the hoarder! Urban explorer discovers eight-bed Surrey mansion piled high with old radios, TVs and board games from the 70s and 80s
- Joshua King, 27, and Issac Rye, 26, found an abandoned Surrey mansion piled high with old appliances
- Mr King, from Newbury in Berkshire, said whoever lived in the house must have been ‘extremely lonely’
- Vintage vehicles were parked outside the house with the pair not able to identify some rare models
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An urban explorer has discovered an eight-bed Surrey mansion piled high with old radios and board games from the 1970s and 80s.
Joshua King, 27, and Issac Rye, 26, found a mountain of discarded appliances and clutter stacked so high the pile almost reached the ceiling.
Mr King, from Newbury in Berkshire, said whoever lived in the house must have been ‘extremely lonely and troubled’ to keep so many possessions.
Vintage vehicles, including some makes the men had never even heard off, were parked outside the house, photographs taken by the pair revealed.
‘I felt excited as I hadn’t really explored a house like this before, I was blown away by the vintage televisions and the polaroid camera,’ he added.
Joshua King, 27, and Issac Rye, 26, found a mountain of discarded appliances and clutter stacked so high the pile almost reached the ceiling inside this Surrey house
Mr King, from Newbury in Berkshire, said whoever lived in the house must have been ‘extremely lonely and troubled’ to keep so many possessions. Pictured, a van parked outside the house
Vintage vehicles, including some makes the men had never even heard off, were parked outside the house, photographs taken by the pair revealed
The living room was piled high with appliances and junk. The NHS defines a hoarding disorder as ‘where someone acquires an excessive number of items and stores them in a chaotic manner, usually resulting in unmanageable amounts of clutter. The items can be of little or no monetary value’
‘The place felt stuck in the 1970s and 1980s in some areas. Being a lover of 1970s style and fashion, I was in awe.
‘Seeing the car graveyard and discovering the state of the house really blew my mind. It felt like a dark place, but you could tell by the lamp posts just outside the house that it used to be a little bit more extravagant.’
He said the inside of the house made him fell ‘uneasy’ and ‘left me questioning how and why somebody could end up living like that and pondering what may have happened to them and what was going on inside their heads to end up living an existence like that.’
Pictured, the urban explorers took the opportunity to sit inside one of the old cars littering the garden of the house
A fan rests on top of a TV which has been balanced on two wooden chairs inside the abandoned eight-bed home
Mr King said the inside of the house made him fell ‘uneasy’ and ‘left me questioning how and why somebody could end up living like that and pondering what may have happened to them and what was going on inside their heads to end up living an existence like that’
An old safe was left inside the home. It is not known who owns the property but it is in a dilapidated condition
An old scrabble board was left behind by the house’s previous owner, among hundreds of other items
The pair were ‘captivated’ by ‘amazing’ vintage appliances and décor inside the large mansion.
Mr King added: ‘The vintage vehicles surrounding the property were also so mesmerizing, some models we’d never even heard of ourselves.’
The NHS defines a hoarding disorder as ‘where someone acquires an excessive number of items and stores them in a chaotic manner, usually resulting in unmanageable amounts of clutter. The items can be of little or no monetary value’.