The Curious Elevation of Greystone Garth
Greystone Garth, a substantial house built in 1869 by the engineer Walter Greystone, was intended to be a robust, long-lasting structure. However, the house was abandoned in 1880 following a devastating, localized storm that reportedly damaged the upper floors. The insurance claim for the repairs was mysteriously dropped, and the house was left to decay. The ensuing Curious gap in the structural history of the house is directly linked to the Roof inspector, Mr. Jonathan Higgs, who was hired to assess the storm damage and file the necessary architectural reports. His documentation—the survey notes, the specialized spirit levels, and the official architectural reports—should have provided a definitive record of the damage. Instead, all of Higgs’s key documents relating to Greystone Garth are entirely Missing from both the town and insurance archives, creating a Curious and profound ambiguity around why the storm damage was never repaired.
Curious Findings in the Survey Notes
The Roof inspector’s primary task was to record structural integrity in his survey notes and architectural reports. The small notebook containing preliminary survey notes is the only documentation recovered. It is highly Curious that this informal notebook survived while the final, certified architectural reports—the most critical legal documents—are Missing. The content of the notes, specifically the observation of the “Missing original truss anchor,” is a profound Curious discovery. If this was a pre-existing construction flaw, why did the owner drop the insurance claim after the storm, essentially taking the blame? The disappearance of the full architectural reports that would have definitively documented this pre-existing fault suggests the documents were deliberately suppressed to Obscure a dangerous, or even fraudulent, construction decision made by the owner himself. The small, broken spirit level found on the roof is a final, physical relic of the inspector’s interrupted work.
The Missing Architectural Report
