The cost of restoring these roofless shells is prohibitive.

A fire broke out on 5 April 1978 and the conflagration left just a roofless shell.

The house beyond Littlejohn's however, had suffered a direct hit; it stood a ruined, roofless shell.

The roofless shell of the county courthouse remains the largest edifice.

Those on the East Cliff still survive as empty roofless shells.

She had seen it with her own eyes reduced by fire to nothing more than a roofless shell.

Eventually, it was nothing more than an empty, roofless, concrete shell.

As she dug, her gaze occasionally strayed to the roofless shell of stone walls.

Mission Calabazas was completely abandoned by 1878, with only a roofless shell remaining.

It is now a roofless shell, with most of the outer and inner walls standing to full height.