English to Polish Art/Literary Architecture Antiques

Cała zagwozdka z moim tekstem leży w grze słów. Jak podaje Oxford, a pile to także "A large imposing building or group of buildings: ‘a Victorian Gothic pile’" - a z kontekstu wynika, że chodzi o wielki, ale stary i zaniedbany dom, czyli nobliwą kupę (pile) gruzu. Tu cały dłuższy fragment, z którym się muszę rozprawić:

"He’d seen homes like that before. Many times. They were what he’d heard referred to during his time at Christ’s College, Cambridge as Victorian piles. Quite descriptive, he’d always thought. And Quebec, notably Montreal, boasted its share of piles, built by the Scottish robber barons, of railway, booze and banking money. They were held together with hubris, a short- term binder at best since many of them had long ago been torn down or donated to McGill University, which needed another Victorian monstrosity like it needed the Ebola virus."

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