This room used to be the library. Locals remember it having lots of built in bookcases etc. Shame nothing is left of them. It would be nice if someday we can find some pictures of the interior.
The library, if you were standing in the street looking at the house, this room is on the right and runs from front to back and is on the same floor as the front balcony.
Top floor also had similar 5′ high heaps of debris, which consisted of framing timber and lath and plaster. The previous owner probably did us a favour in removing all of this. We kept all the good wood.
Through the window you can just see the skip (dumpster for US folk) filling up. This wiki entry gives origins of the word skip.
These are front and back videos of the same room.