Teetering on the brink! Owner is forced to abandon 18th Century home to its fate with council set to move in and demolish it after landslip left it on the verge of falling onto beach

Shocking photos taken from a drone today show a three-bedroom house hanging perilously over a cliff edge on the north Norfolk coast after a surge of recent cliff falls.

The old farmhouse at Cliff Farm in Trimingham, which dates back to the 18th century, can be seen dangling over the cliffs after a huge landslide last week and is now set to be demolished before it falls onto the beach.

The homeowner who bought the property just five years ago at auction for £132,000, has been forced to evacuate his home and North Norfolk District Council has confirmed it will soon be demolishing the property.

Incredible before and after pictures from October 2023 to today show how much closer the house has got to the cliff edge. 

Recent heavy rainfall has increased erosion in the soft cliffs at Trimingham and there have been frequent landslides over the last few months.

Four years ago, in January 2020, a large part of the cliff eroded near Trimingham House Caravan Park, with tonnes of sand and silt falling onto the beach.

Trimingham Parish Council plans to use drones to plant seeds along the cliffs in a bid to naturally bind them together and slow down the rate of erosion threatening the village. They have also been trying to use pipes to drain water out of the cliffs.

Shocking photos taken today show a three-bedroom house hanging perilously over a cliff edge on the north Norfolk coast after a surge of recent cliff falls

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Before and after pictures show the house today and in October 2023

The old farmhouse at Cliff Farm in Trimingham, which dates back to the 18th century, can be seen dangling over the cliffs after a huge landslide last week and is now set to be demolished before it falls onto the beach

The homeowner who bought the property just five years ago at auction for £132,000, has been forced to evacuate his home

Cliff Farm and a second property are now visible from the beach where debris, including tyres, has fallen after a chunk of the cliff came away.

Erosion has become a very common sight on the Norfolk coast with several homes also being lost in Hemsby in recent years. 

The concerns over a potential cliff collapse at Trimingham had led the Ministry of Defence to move the distinctive 'golf ball' radar station inland to Neatishead last year.

A replacement facility was built eight miles from the coast at RAF Neatishead, near Hoveton - the site of a former major radar base.

North Norfolk District Council said it has been in touch with the owners of both properties in Trimingham since the cliff fall last week.

The Trimingham locals are not the only ones concerned about the effects of coastal erosion on the Norfolk coast.

In March last year, terrified residents in Hembsy were forced to pack up their belongings and possibly leave their cliff-edge homes for good amid fears their houses could plunge into the sea during an overnight storm surge.

The village, which is home to around 3,000 people, has suffered from severe coastal erosion in recent years with many properties abandoned as the cliffs continue to slip away.

Ex-soldier, Lance Martin, a resident in the village, had to drag his home away from a cliff edge twice to stop it falling into the sea before admitting defeat last November.

The ex-grenadier guardsman first used a tractor to pull his home away from the edge of the cliff in March, before repeating the act again in August, pulling his one-bedroom home back another 40 metres in land while several of his neighbour's homes were demolished.

North Norfolk District Council has confirmed it will soon be demolishing the property

Incredible pictures show the house teetering on the edge of the cliff in Norfolk 

From above, the end of the house can be seen poking over the edge of the huge cliff

This picture from October 2023 shows how much further back the property was

Images show how the two coastal houses have been left in a precarious position after the cliffs slipped at Trimingham, in Norfolk

The properties are now visible from the beach where debris, including tyres, has fallen after a chunk of the cliff came away

North Norfolk District Council said it has been in touch with the owners of both properties in Trimingham since the cliff fall last week

Lance Martin, 65, hit the headlines in March when he used a tractor to pull his home away from the cliff in Hemsby, Norfolk

Now his home is at risk of toppling over the cliff edge and landing in the sea again, again because of further erosion,

But his home was at risk of toppling over the cliff edge and landing in the sea again, because of further erosion in November, leading Mr Martin to say he was 'just accepting' what had happened to his home and was trying to 'keep a smile on his face'.

He said: 'The overwhelming feeling among the neighbours is one of despair. I keep a smile on my face.

'I haven't broken down yet. I crack on with it- there's nobody to blame, you just have to accept it and move on.' 

In October, locals said they had been abandoned by the Government after it scrapped a defence scheme - despite a landslip leaving a home perched on the edge of a cliff.

Despite the shocking images, the Government said a planned sea defence project did not qualify for funding to be put into action.

Local authorities claimed inflation has pushed the cost of the project from a reported £15million to £20million, ultimately leading to the offer of financial support being withdrawn. They then warned the the collapse of homes was inevitable. 

A report by climate group One Home estimated that coastal homes in England worth a total of £584million could be lost to cliff collapses by 2100.