This London home surrounded by rusting steel and razor wire is frozen in time – exactly how the late owner left it – and could possibly be the city’s ‘ugliest’ house.
Drivers slow down and pedestrians stand and stare as they pass the abandoned property on Charlemont Road, in East Ham.
The eye-sore, which used to be a corner shop, is loathed by locals and has been compared to Alcatraz prison.
A wall of rusting steel seals off the yard and razor wire runs along the wall while the old shop front is nothing but a brutal slab of bricks.
But behind the grim façade, time
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