The phrase "dilapidated place" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a place in a state of disrepair, such as a building, an area, or a room. For example, "The old barn had been left unused for years and was now a dilapidated place."
Wyatt Match thought Verl Lister's dilapidated place gave Wyoming ranchers a slob name.
I wanted to show what terrible places all schools are without people thinking, "that dilapidated place shown is nothing like the school in my neighborhood". Many people in education, teachers especially, who have watched the film still have that same defensive response because their schools haven't brought in SWAT teams, but they just don't get it.
Many of its 19th-century galleries were badly dilapidated; in places, water dripped from the ceiling into plastic buckets.
It is so dilapidated in places that estimates of its total length vary from 9,000 to 21,000 kilometres, depending on whether missing sections are included.
The witness described how she would be away from home for up to to eight days at a time at various properties including some in the Cowley Road area which were often "dilapidated, grotty places".
As a lifelong resident of the Bronx, I have seen these changes take place — dilapidated buildings turned into thriving businesses, abandoned lots converted into housing, and crime-ridden streets made safe for children to walk to school.
Mr. Shinohara sells just enough art to make the rent, and Ms. Shinohara takes care of much of the cooking, bill-paying and other work in the loft — a dilapidated, messy place with a leaky roof — which they share with their son, Alex, 39, who is also an artist.
"The place was dilapidated," he said.
A 200-year-old house built like a fortress, the place was dilapidated and teeming with French laborers who were virtual prisoners of war; the photograph Mr. Kleeman took appears in his memoir.
Commander Kyle Cheshire and his men compliment the mother on her household, which is odd, as the place is dilapidated, miserable, and rundown, and has been so since the father's camel-trekking business failed.
By the 21st century, however, Castle House had become dilapidated and English Heritage placed it on its "at risk" register.
