Gaunt shack

The Gaunt Shack was the home of the Gaunt family, it was a little shack located in the woods just outside the village of Little Hangleton.

Inhabitants
It was the home of Marvolo Gaunt and his two children, Morfin and Merope, they were the last remaining descendants of Salazar Slytherin and lived there in poverty, speaking Parseltongue to each other and living in deplorable conditions. They where once visited by the Ministry of magic official Bob Ogden, who came to question Morfin about his habit of using magic in front of villagers.

Horcrux hiding place
After the death of the Gaunt family the house was left deserted, Lord Voldemort decided to use this place to hide one of his Horcruxes, which was Gaunt's Ring taken from Morfin himself. The ring was left in the ruins of the house with a curse of sorts left upon it. In the summer of 1996, Albus Dumbledore returned to this location and destroyed the ring, though at the cost of his right hand.