Hollywood filmmaker loses High Court fight with council after it locked him out of his family's crumbling 'Downton Shabby' estate

Hopwood DePree had been working to restore 600-year-old Hopwood Hall, located in Middleton, Greater Manchester, after the property fell into neglect.

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