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Patrick Daly & Nicola Croal

Lavish mansion bigger than Buckingham Palace abandoned in UK countryside for 20 years

A £40 million mansion that's bigger than Buckingham Palace has been left abandoned with permanent scaffolding and discarded building blocks for more than 20 years in the British countryside.

Hamilton Palace - which stands in a quiet, untouched area of East Sussex - boasts a façade longer than the royal palace and was once considered to be one of the most high priced private houses under construction in the UK.

However, the neglected country house in Uckfield now resembles an image of something out of a horror movie scene with terrifying warning signs surrounding it, the Mirror reports. The colossal home was designed for British multi-millionaire Nicholas Van Hoogstraten, a former property tycoon and now convicted felon but the luxurious palace has remained unfinished for over 37 years since work first began on it.

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