Abandoned Hampshire: Southampton House

In a leafy area of Southampton is this heavily overgrown small detached house. It looks like it’s been left for a good number of years. A sign out front showed the place was up for auction. After a surprisingly easy access, despite the many private properties surrounding us, we made our way inside.

The first thing we noticed was the place reeked of mustiness, it was also smaller than we were expecting. The ground floor consisted of an entrance hallway, kitchen, Toilet and lounge. The lounge had sickly wallpaper peeling off all of the walls. An old TV laid toppled over in the middle of the room alongside fallen and shattered mini light fittings. Empty bookshelves lined the edges of the lounge. The sunlight beamed into the room through shattered windows onto the mouldy walls.

The sad state of the kitchen was clear, with the wooden cabinets starting to rot and debris littering the floor, not only from inside but also from the outside, as one big windows was shattered inwards and outside debris had found its way in from the overgrown jungle, under which somewhere there was a garden.

We moved upstairs, where there were two bedrooms, a bathroom and an office. The spare bedroom was the sorriest of all the rooms, the ceiling having caved-in to expose insulation and wooden support beams. A lone 1940s-style suitcase sat on its own in the middle of the room, its contents scattered across the floor. The windows up here were also covered by the extreme growth of the messy trees outside blocking the light.

The office was in a slightly better condition, with desks still standing, awaiting work to be done upon their countertops. A safe in the lower corner had been prized open, spilling a mess of keys into the room. The final room was the eeriest of all. The room was barren, save for a lone chair sat empty by the semi-blocked window. Who its final owner was and what happened to them, we’ll never know.

While we don’t know what’s going to happen to the property once it’s auctioned off, having seen inside and what the surrounding area is like, it’s not difficult to imagine the house being torn down and something new going up in its place. Until that day comes, the house will continue to sit idle, awaiting an owner never to return.

Last Updated on 16 July 2024 by Michael