Stockton resident fears grade II listed farm house will collapse
Mr Collins said the house, which has been fenced off, had been plagued with vandalism."Kids are breaking in and smashing it up. Bit by bit they're slowly destroying it. It's getting to the point where there's not going to be much salvageable," he said."Everything's full of holes and smashed up. The whole place is literally falling into the ground."
Mr Collins said he had been in touch with Stockton Borough Council about the property and wanted it to serve notice under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, which would require work to be carried out.Historic England described Bradley House as a "rare survival of a farm complex in a modern urbanised area" and an "eloquent witness to Wolviston's pre-urban past".Mr Messham said the property was not something he and his business partner were going to forget about, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service."It's just the fact that this is such an awkward building to work with, you've got to go through all the hoops to get anything done," he said."We've been in talks with Stockton council about how to move forward with this, which is looking positive."But the idea is not to pull it all down. Too many people pull it all down and build houses to make money, it isn't about that."
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