If you insist on trespassing, don’t complain if you get caught.

But of course, no one should take any of it. Much better to let it rot and crumble.

“Skeleton Key had informed me prior to visiting this manor that it is guarded by a huge bull that could free roam outside the building, although hearing what he was saying I hadn’t really given it much thought.(what harm can a cow with horns do, right?) Once getting onto the site and wondering the grounds I’d spotted it, Now this ‘cow with horns’ was very real and I didn’t hang about to find out what it thought of me. I swear this thing was the size of a small car!
It was time to back up and just take a more blattent route and risk being caught and yep… That’s exactly what happened. As we made our way out of bull territory I’d been spotted by someone driving down the private drive, “what are you doing here?” I chucked out the old “I’m looking for my dog” excuss. No suprise he wasn’t happy and told me to piss off out the way I came in.
Not giving up up though we headed back for our second attempt which happend to work out perfectly and we soon found ourselves inside.”

And some of the comments at that link thanked the poster for letting them know there was a way around the precautions that had been set up to keep them out of the home.

Clearly not an abandoned property; going in even just to take photos is still knowingly trespassing.

A good read sort of on this same subject–

I Can’t Believe You’re Throwing Out Books!
 http://magnificentnose.com/2011/05/16/i-can%E2%80%99t-believe-you%E2%80%99re-throwing-out-books/

That said – while a lot of it is trashed, there is very clearly a lot of well-preserved stuff in there. A small fortune in vintage collectible stuff. When the house eventually gets cleaned out I hope they don’t just throw out everything.

(I considered writing the title of an extremely rare book to precipitate a mad dash to this location, but that would be mean.)
(Hey one says, “Gut____rg Bib__”, probably worthless.)

Books, including very old books, have enormous symbolic value, but the vast majority of them are almost immediately useless to the overwhelming majority of their potential readership, and the vast majority of the rest are readily available for the rest of eternity. If you don’t believe me, call a good-sized rare book dealer and ask how many 18th-century books you could get for $100 if you started at the bottom of their price list. (I mean books that were printed in the 1700s, not modern reprintings.) On the whole, they’ll be cheaper than a remaindered Harry Potter hardcover. 

I totally get the same antiquarian buzz looking at these shelves. But their main value at this point is in lending a sense of mystery to urban-exploration jaunts like this. Beyond that there’d be no shame in sending these straight to the compost pile, and no point in trying to fill up library shelves with them.

http://www.littlefreelibrary.org/index.html