At the moment we are clearing out the rooms, an unpleasant and smelly job. We've had some less than pleasant discoveries, including the skeleton of a bird behind one mantelpiece, and one good discovery which was a decent (although filthy) fireplace in the bedroom behind the horrible wooden one. We now need to sort the waste into wood, rubble, metal and other before we order up a big skip.
We concentrated on the sitting room first as this was the most pleasant room (it was the "good" room and I suspect cigarette's were not allowed and it wasn't used much) and is well away from the rest of the house. Now the sitting room is all cleared out we are planning to put the bed up in there and move into the one room with the tent as additional living space.
Living room before and after the clearout: