This rather unappealing mock-Tudor abode is bisected by the old, invisible boundary line once separating the medieval parishes of Trentford and Harlow. The house has been uninhabted for years, and heavy wooden fencing forms a formidable perimiter about its grounds.
Despite its untenanted status, rumors abound regarding strange figures glimpsed in and around the house on certain nights of the year; it also inhabits a point in space which is doubly-liminal: in the first instance, on account of the old parish boundary which runs through the house, and also because the structure was built (by instruction of no less a sinister personage than James Boreham) on the site at which two major ley lines supposedly intersect - a site which is, unsurprisingly, drenched in the strange and bloody witchlore of the region.
There are, of course, no end of local tales regarding the mysterious disappearance of those interlopers who have dared to enter the grounds of the house; of endless warrens and caverns burrowing deep into the earth beneath the edifice; and of inhuman chanting sometimes heard emanating from below the building. There are also those who claim that Ministry officials have been monitoring UFO and other paranormal activity at the site since the 1950s.
Whatever the truth of the matter, residents of the surrounding area always give the house a wide berth, and stubbornly refuse to discuss its history with outsiders.
Despite its untenanted status, rumors abound regarding strange figures glimpsed in and around the house on certain nights of the year; it also inhabits a point in space which is doubly-liminal: in the first instance, on account of the old parish boundary which runs through the house, and also because the structure was built (by instruction of no less a sinister personage than James Boreham) on the site at which two major ley lines supposedly intersect - a site which is, unsurprisingly, drenched in the strange and bloody witchlore of the region.
There are, of course, no end of local tales regarding the mysterious disappearance of those interlopers who have dared to enter the grounds of the house; of endless warrens and caverns burrowing deep into the earth beneath the edifice; and of inhuman chanting sometimes heard emanating from below the building. There are also those who claim that Ministry officials have been monitoring UFO and other paranormal activity at the site since the 1950s.
Whatever the truth of the matter, residents of the surrounding area always give the house a wide berth, and stubbornly refuse to discuss its history with outsiders.
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