The Horsingdon Transmissions No.281: The House on the Borderland

On the parish boundary between Horsingdon and Harlow sits this crumbling domicile - long uninhabited on account of the long history of disappearances which haunts the place. Whilst the house has never undergone significant renovation or been subject to any structural changes since the time of its construction, accounts provided by previous inhabitants regarding its interior layout have varied widely - to the extent that there is little agreement between these statements concerning something as simple (and seemingly self-evident) as the exact numbers of rooms the structure supposedly possesses.

One previous occupant even described in his diary - discovered shortly after this unfortunate individual's mysterious disappearance - the existence of an extensive series of cellars and sub-cellers leading hundreds of feet below the house, culminating in a cathredral-sized grotto within which the narrator apparently discovered an 'Infinite Staircase' which apparently wended its way through 'those Lower Realms of which I dare not speak'.

Needless to say, no subsequent survey of the property has provided evidence of such cavernous subterrenean delvings; there has, however, been significant disagreement as to the exact dimensions of the house as provided by the various surveys to which it has been subjected over the years - including one notable claim that the building seemed to be endowed with a greater internal volume of space than the external measurements would allow for.

There is nothing else really to say about the matter, other than to mention the fact that, unsurprisingly, records indicate that the house was originally built by James Boreham.