Most people are aware of The Crooked House, ‘Britain’s wonkiest pub’, which made the news when it was unlawfully demolished after being gutted by fire.

Well, until 1978, it had a lookalike in Droitwich. Wychbury House, on Worcester Road, was home to husband-and-wife GPs Robert and Jenny Addenbrooke, whose surgery was in an extension.

The 19th century building started to tilt in the 1920s due to subsidence caused by underground brine extraction for the salt industry – a not uncommon problem in Droitwich.

Nearly 1,000 people signed a petition to save the much-loved ‘Leaning House’ but district council planners gave the go-ahead for two new homes to be built on the site.

Writing on Facebook site Pictorial Droitwich Spa, Pamela Harrison recalled that the Addenbrookes had to level the floors of their home every so often.

​There actually was a Crooked House pub in the High Street (see separate entry). The building still stands but it isn’t a dead ringer for its Black Country namesake.