Sentence examples for a ruinous condition from inspiring English sources

The castle was in a ruinous condition in 2013 and unfit for habitation.

Little Moreton Hall was in a ruinous condition; its windows were boarded up and its roof was rotten.

It fell into a "ruinous condition" and was pulled down by 1640 when Francis Mansell (principal since 1630) erected further buildings on the north and south sides of the quadrangle.

It was given this status on 2 September 1952 and has been listed because it is "important as a substantially 12th-century structure, with some architectural details surviving from this early period", even though it is now in a "ruinous condition".

A 1343 survey showed that Beaumaris needed extensive work, with several of the towers in a ruinous conditions.

Its deterioration was arrested in the 19th century, by which time the building was in a substantially ruinous condition.

Originally restored by a local artist, it is now in ruinous condition, held together partly by straps.

5cc4bd32-c276-4eb2-a5bf-3b0adc5089b7 As a 1944 graduate of Erasmus Hall High School, I am saddened at the ruinous condition of the original Erasmus Hall Academy building.

He sold up and his poem On Leaving Newstead Abbey reflects the ruinous condition of the building he left behind.

Colonel Frederick Haldimand, in command of the fort in 1773, wrote that it was in "ruinous condition".

So much of Dublin was built in the 18th century that it set a Georgian stamp on the city; however arising out of bad planning and poverty, until recently Dublin was one of the few cities where fine 18th-century housing could be seen in ruinous condition.