I thought maybe you were tired of beach cottages so went back to my archives for a good capture for bw. This house has collapsed. Somebody was murdered here and so no one ever lived in it again. They never caught the killer.
Before reading your narrative I thought it was kind of a sad old ramshackle house but after reading about it I'd say it's more like a house of horrors. Best it is no more! If ever there was an image made for black & white this is it! Well done!
Such a sad history..