At the side of a quiet country lane in rural Northumberland, a small, pokey farmhouse squats forlorn and abandoned - its rickety fixtures showing the effects of time and neglect.
And on the other side of the road, the house's previous residents are very angry indeed.
Because the Beal family can perhaps claim to be the ultimate victims of governmental incompetence as highways chiefs forced them out of the home - which they had occupied for 118 years - to make way for a road that has never been built.
The Beal family moved into Charlton Mires in 1904 and four generations have farmed the land ever since.
But three years ago Martin Beal, 61, his wife, daughter and his parents were forced to make a heartbreaking exit from the farm and steadings in Northumberland.
