She lives on a council estate on the outskirts of Irvine, North Ayrshire, not far from the dilapidated cottage she owns.

After a sharp left turn at a dismantled 1920's filling station, now a law office, you come upon Eleanor Lux's weaving studio nestled between dilapidated cottages.

On the other side of the garden, five dilapidated Victorian cottages would become artists' residences and a schoolhouse.

I don't want to stay in this horrible dilapidated cottage a moment longer.

The village itself consisted of three picturesque but dilapidated cottages, a forge, and a com b/ned post office and sweet shop.

Greene persuaded the company to buy a dilapidated cottage in Hampshire, which they then filmed him doing up and converting through construction.

They'd spent the whole day going from one dilapidated cottage to another, asking the same questions and getting the same useless answers.

He put down his burden on the pile at the side of the dilapidated cottage and returned for more.

His next purchase, immediately after the sale, was a dilapidated cottage across the street from the first house, which he renovated and brought back to life.

She looked mournfully at the dilapidated cottage.