AN ABANDONED home is “frozen in the 90s” full of pictures and antiques which have remained untouched for 27 years.
The cottage in Iverness has been left to rot after the homeowner died in 1995 with no living relatives.
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But their memory lives on in the precious trinkets and belongings still in place today.
Extraordinary pictures have captured a wall mounted shelf bursting with abandoned ornaments, including a wooden lighthouse thermometer and porcelain figurines could be seen.
In another, the retro living room features an armchair, sofa, lamp and a fireplace which can be seen gradually succumbing to nature, as wallpaper peeled from the walls and mould sprouted from the sofas.
Capturing the time warp property in pictures, urban explorer No Limits Urbex said: “After some extensive land registry research I found this amazing cottage in Scotland so I packed a bag and made the four hour drive.
“Situated on a mountainside in the middle of Scotland this lovely idyllic cottage had been left to decay for the last three decades.
“After the death of the last remaining family member in 1995 the home was seized by the local authorities so it didn’t fall into disrepair and become an eyesore.”
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The Housing Act 2004 allows councils to take ownership of properties and intervene to stop abandoned properties from being squatted or vandalised.
“The cottage was built around 1920 and apart from a little bit of interior weather damage it remains largely intact,” continued No Limits Urbex.
“It was littered with antique quirkiness and everything seemed to have its own place.
“It had been left in a state of suspended animation with even the wedding pictures still on display.”
Elsewhere, an abandoned orphanage and asylum has been left to rot on the outskirts of Dundee.
Strathmartine Hospital, founded in 1852, was the first of its kind and once housed up to 160 children.
It was reported that some wards in the 1950s had ‘time-out’ rooms – no bigger than a large cupboard – with steel shutters and no windows where children were kept if they “acted out”.
The original site is now derelict after closing in 2003.
Crumbling chipboards hang from doorways and smashed windows in a feeble bid to keep members of the public out.
But the abandoned building is popular with urban explorers, despite police warnings that it is unsafe.
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Inside abandoned Scots orphanage and asylum with leftover surgical equipment and trees growing through floors
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