The Crooked House

Posted by Miss Cellania in Travel & Places on September 22, 2007 at 8:40 am


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The Crooked House pub in England will make you stagger after only one drink… or none at all! The foundation of the building has shifted over time due to underground mining. Buttressing stopped the damage, but there is a 15% tilt left behind. Link -via Grow-A-Brain


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4 comments to "The Crooked House"

  1. Denita TwoDragons
    September 22nd, 2007 at 11:12 am

    Sheesh! I'd need a Dramamine just to get through the front door!

    --TwoDragons

  2. Vexorg
    September 22nd, 2007 at 11:01 pm

    For several years in Seattle, just off I-5 there was a house which had started to lean in a similar fashion when its foundation was undermined by flooding. In that case, it was too severe (and too damaged) to correct, and the house sat abandoned for quite a while before finally being demolished.

  3. The Nag
    September 23rd, 2007 at 8:53 am

    They felt like they were walking on a tilt but thought it was the 10 pints they'd had to drink.

  4. Sofar
    April 7th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    What a lot of people don't realize is the incredible plasticity of mortar. Given twenty years of a very slow and strong force, you could bend a brick wall double without the mortar cracking once.


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