tumbledown

/ ˈtʌmbəlˌdaʊn /

adjective

1. falling to pieces; dilapidated; crumbling

Example Sentences

The project is in a tumbledown section of Oildale, situated between an optical lens store and aquatic pet shop.

From Los Angeles Times

This is what the wan remnants of an Irish Catholic dynasty look like in Brian Friel’s play “Aristocrats,” set in the mid-1970s amid the tumbledown glamour of the O’Donnells’ grand old homestead, in the hills above Ballybeg, County Donegal.

From New York Times

There aren’t any streets here and ambulances wouldn’t brave the dirt paths leading to his home in this Bedouin village, one of the many tumbledown communities dotting the expanse of the Negev and not recognized by the Israeli government.

From Los Angeles Times

HGTV’s “Bargain Block” has made stars out of home designers and renovators Keith Bynum and Evan Thomas, who purchase multiple tumbledown homes on the same block in Detroit, fix them up, and sell them for under $200,000.

From Salon

You can see how from Abu Khaled's tumbledown farmhouse, a bumpy few minutes' drive from the Palestinian village of Turmus Ayya.

From BBC