The whole attic storey was choked with debris from above, but no one took the trouble to touch the mess before the inevitable razing of the decrepit structure.

But owners feared that preservation or rezoning would greatly limit their ability to exploit these trends, leaving them saddled with antiquated, decrepit structures.

It was an ancient, decrepit structure, its one window a black hole, its door too low for a tall man.

"I thought so," the farmer slowly answered as he scanned the decrepit structure.

The Town Council agreed that the decrepit structure needed to come down and approved the Esplanade plan in January.

It was a decrepit structure, overgrown by sickly moss, with a moat filled with rotting goo.

A small, decrepit structure, the jail stood opposite the railroad tracks.

The primary school is a decrepit two-room structure with no desks or chairs, and 70 percent of the children drop out before junior high, said the village leader.

The properties are mostly decrepit structures ranging from single-family homes to large apartment buildings with more than 100 units, generally in poor neighborhoods.

The house, a decrepit structure that sits on a busy highway in Versailles, is cold because it would cost more than $2,000 a month to heat its 12 rooms.