brickwork

Before choosing to build at the former brickworks, the company had considered other locations across Europe.

There are dark stains on the outer walls of Dean Carpenter's new-build home and when it rains, he says, sheets of water cascade down the brickwork.

The finale of the novel is set in ruined brickworks on the Humber foreshore – a location transplanted to Hartlepool in the film.

Oksana, another resident, sent the BBC photos of her destroyed apartment, with the windows blown in and glass and brickwork strewn across the floors.

Some of Mr Iliffe's neighbours also suffered damage to their properties - with other aerials destroyed, brickwork damaged, roof tiles blown off, and one with the windows blown out of his greenhouse.