Alice Parsons' house

The three-storey-high old stone house in Shoreditch in East End was built as early as the 18th century. Until her death in 2015, it belonged to Alice Parsons.

Outside appearance and garden
The house was painted purple and grey, and had sash windows. Ground floor windows were barred with iron. The house had a garden separated from the street by the railings. By 2016, the paint was peeling, the windows were covered with ivy and the garden was overgrown with weeds. The front door had a door knocker in the shape of a rose.

There was a back gate at the side leading to the back garden with a conservatory leaning against the house. Another entrance to the house was through the conservatory.

Interior
The front door led to a big hallway with a wooden staircase going up to an open first-floor landing with ornate railing. There were floorboards on the floor.

The hallway led to a small room with a fireplace and many dolls in different national costumes on one side and to a small dining room on the other side with a long table covered in comics. The hallway was also connected to a lounge with a huge ancient television.

Adjoining to the small room was a kitchen with a free-standing oven, battered fridge freezer and a wide old-style sink. Doors led from the kitchen to a utility room with an old washing machine and to the conservatory.

Several doors led from the first-floor landing. Another set of stairs led from it to the top floor. Ceilings on the second floor were lower and corridors tighter. The attic room, where Amira lived in 2016, was at the end of a corridor covered with old carpet leading straight from the second-floor landing. The attic room was large and had a low ceiling slanted on the side looking out over the garden. There were a wooden chest of drawers, two beds, trunk with 108 children's books and wardrobe with musty-smelling dresses. A hatch in the ceiling led to the attic.

In the 21st century, the inside of the house was covered in cobwebs so dense they were blocking the light.

Rumours
When Ram Singh was a kid, it was rumoured that a mad old woman living in the house pulled kids' teeth and made jewellery out of them.

Later, the urban legends website "Myth City", run by Alan Turnpike, featured several stories about "Faceless Alice", a girl seen in the house. She had no facial features but otherwise looked 13 or 14 years old. One story told how she turned a man into a pile of dust. There was a bad quality photo taken in 1976-1986 showing the house with a woman in a dress, supposedly Faceless Alice, looking out the window. Alan himself saw Faceless Alice stroking the hair of sleeping Alice Parsons. Faceless Alice was an avatar of Alice's daughter created by the female bone spider.

Ram posted to the same website a story of "Faceless Mary", a girl without a face but with an oversized screaming mouth full of teeth. The next day the female bone spider materialised Faceless Mary in the house to scare the Coal Hill defenders.

History
Alice Parsons inherited the house from her parents.

At the end of the 1980s or beginning of the 1990s, Alan Turnpike was drawn to the house. By that time Alice Parsons' husband had long died and she was living alone in the house. Alan saw Faceless Alice in a window. He called the police who did not find anything. Then he broke into the house several times, one of which he was confronted by the house owner. He broke into the house one more time at night and saw Faceless Alice stroking the hair of sleeping Alice Parsons.

After the old lady died in July 2015, the house was bought by the property developer Constantine Oliver, who was planning to knock the house down.

In November 2016, Tanya Adeola was drawn to the house. She saw Amira's face in one of the windows. She called the police who claimed to only find traces of homeless people in the empty house. Tanya alerted the Coal Hill defenders asking for their help. She and Ram broke into the house. Then all of them together broke into the house but did not find anybody. (PROSE: The Stone House)