Alice Parsons ' house The three - storey - high old stone house in Shoreditch in East End was built as early as the 18th century . Until her death in 2015 , it belonged to Alice Parsons . Outside appearance and garden . The house was painted purple and grey , and had sash windows . Ground floor windows were barred with iron . The house had a garden separated from the street by the railings . By 2016 , the paint was peeling , the windows were covered with ivy and the garden was overgrown with weed s . The front door had a door knocker in the shape of a rose . There was a back gate at the side leading to the back garden with a conservatory leaning against the house . Another entrance to the house was through the conservatory . Interior . The front door led to a big hallway with a wooden staircase going up to an open first - floor landing with ornate railing . There were floorboards on the floor . The hallway led to a small room with a fireplace and many dolls in different national costumes on one side and to a small dining room on the other side with a long table covered in comics . The hallway was also connected to a lounge with a huge ancient television . Adjoining to the small room was a kitchen with a free - standing oven , battered fridge freezer and a wide old - style sink . Doors led from the kitchen to a utility room with an old washing machine and to the conservatory . In the floor of the utility room , there was a hidden door leading to the basement . Several doors led from the first - floor landing . Another set of stairs led from it to the top floor . Ceilings on the second floor were lower and corridors tighter . At the end of a corridor covered with old carpet leading straight from the second - floor landing was the attic room . It was large and had a low ceiling slanted on the side looking out over the garden . There were a wooden chest of drawers , two beds , trunk with 108 children ' s books and wardrobe with musty - smelling dresses . A hatch in the ceiling led to the attic , mostly containing things no longer used . The attic had no floorboards , only sheets of cardboard covering exposed struts . In the 21st century , the inside of the house was covered in cobwebs so dense they were blocking the light . The webs were especially dense in the basement , where a section was completely cut off by solid web wall . Rumours . When Ram Singh was a kid , it was rumoured that a mad old woman living in the house pulled kids ' teeth and made jewellery out of them . The urban legends website " Myth City " , run by Alan Turnpike , featured several stories about " Faceless Alice " , a girl seen in the house . She had no facial features but otherwise looked 13 or 14 years old . One story told how she turned a man into a pile of dust . There was a bad quality photo taken in 1976 - 1986 showing the house with a woman in a dress , supposedly Faceless Alice , looking out the window . Alan himself once saw Faceless Alice stroking the hair of sleeping Alice Parsons . Faceless Alice was an avatar of Alice ' s daughter created by the female bone spider . Ram posted to the same website a story of " Faceless Mary " , a girl without a face but with an oversized screaming mouth full of teeth . The next day the female bone spider materialised Faceless Mary in the house to scare the Coal Hill defenders . History . Alice Parsons inherited the house from her parents . One day Alice found out that she was sharing the house with the female bone spider . At the end of the 1980s or beginning of the 1990s , Alan Turnpike was drawn to the house . By that time Alice Parsons ' husband had long died and she was living in the house with the spider , who was unseen by anyone else . Sometime before November 2014 , Constantine Oliver offered to buy the house from Alice , but she refused . By this time , the spider gave birth to a baby . Worried about the fate of her eight - legged lodgers , Alice changed her will to keep the house unperturbed for a year after her death and turn it into a shelter for refugees afterwards . After the old lady died in July 2015 , the baby spider was accidentally carried away in her coffin leaving her mother the only inhabitant of the house . The mother spider was using dandelion clocks as a homing device to bring her baby back . Using fraud , Mr Oliver bought the house from Alice Parsons ' estate . He hired men to nightwatch onsite but they all either ran away screaming claiming to have seen monsters or were found cocooned in sticky cobwebs . In 2016 , the spider ' s call brought Amira to the house . The mother spider liked her and did not let her leave , while herself remaining unseen . In November 2016 , Tanya Adeola was similarly drawn to the house through dandelion clocks . She saw Amira ' s face in one of the windows and became determined to save the girl who seemed to be in trouble . All Coal Hill defenders participated in Tanya ' s investigation , with Charlie even taking the job of a nightwatcher for Constantine Oliver Ltd for one day . That night the spider separated Tanya from her friends and kept her in the house alongside Amira . The next day the house was slated for demolition by Mr Oliver , but Miss Quill prevented it by presenting the original will of Alice Parsons , discovered in the attic . At the same time , Tanya found a way to communicate with the spider , found her lost baby and brought her back to the house . After this the house was returned to Alice Parsons ' estate and left in the care of Alan Turnpike , with the spiders remaining in the house until a way would be found to return them to their home planet . ( PROSE : " The Stone House " )