‘I’m completely invested’: Rochdale council pulls out of US actor’s ancestral home restoration
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Hopwood DePree has been leading efforts to renovate listed Hopwood Hall, nicknamed ‘Downton Shabby’, since 2017
It was a story fit for the pages of a Hollywood screenplay, with a California actor moving to a town in north Manchester to restore his dilapidated ancestral home.
But Hopwood DePree’s romance plot has transformed instead to a horror, after he found himself locked out the building he was restoring, and now battling the local council in court for possession of the property. Continue reading...
