Residents were woken by a massive crashing sound in the middle of night as the wall of a house collapsed during nearby building work.
Neighbours from a row of converted barns in Worton, near Cassington, in Oxfordshire heard the noise at 2am on October 28. They immediately went downstairs and noticed all the lights on in The Tithe Barn – the property that sustained the damage. One person, who asked not to be named, said: “We went out into the driveway with torches to see the owners of The Tithe Barn also there and immediately saw the collapsed wall.
“We were in complete shock at what we saw with the collapsed gable end wall strewn across the driveway and blocking the access to two of the four dwellings at Jericho Farm Barns. We were all thankful that, other than shocked and distressed, nobody was injured. Had this happened in daylight hours, with cars and people using the driveway, we could possibly be looking at a very different and possibly tragic situation.”
The resident added: “There is still danger with an overhang of masonry at The Tithe Barn which the insurance company want taken down before they will allow the removal of the rubble in the driveway.”
Neighbours told of hearing a crashing sound in the night (
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A nearby property is undergoing extensive works to build out the basement – which was given planning permission by West Oxfordshire District Council earlier this year. There were objections from neighbours and Cassington Parish Council who warned of risk of damage to existing buildings and some flooding history of the site
