manor house

A US actor's dream of restoring his ancestral home to its former glory has been left in ruins after the council that owns the 15th century manor house pulled out of the deal.

A couple overseeing the £11m restoration of a derelict Welsh manor house have appealed for information about two carved wooden angels found at the property.

That was one of the problems with centuries-old Scottish manor houses.

He gave a pair of recitals on the day, one at the manor house in Zelazowa Wola where Chopin was born in 1810, now a museum, and the other at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw.

“The hotel takes the place of the Victorian manor house of an Agatha Christie novel.”