I wondered the same as your 1st critique ...
So I placed your photo into play with pictures and erased the BG then set it on a black BG.
opened in photoscape and increased sharpness
I really like this old house.... imo or on my screen it looked a little light so ion photoscape (free program) I ..
1st crop a little go get rid of the wires
then darkened added saturation
then played with the hue to tone down the blues
added 1 to sharp