What a gorgeous house and estate! It looks so luxurious without being tacky or OTT. Hopwood Hall has the advantage though - its centuries-old history that's stood through wars, industrial revolution, all the stories, characters who visited, superb historic fabric and amazing volunteers who've stopped it from collapse. That's its USP! The Dunskey owner's advice is spot on - insulate and power the building as sustainably as possible to keep running costs down - insulated lime plaster walls, sheeps wool/wood block fibre roof insulation etc, possibly discreet solar PV on the flat roof, then you can get excited about how the spaces will function and look. Its all very exciting and I cant wait to see the next installment. Maybe a few more Dunskey-type trips are needed..for 'research' obviously 😉
I really enjoyed this tour -- it shows the importance of these grand estates being used and not closed off from the community. The fact so many locals have retained work here is a testament to the ties that keep the spirit alive (spirit 👻). Do more of these !!!!
Hopwood, you have the passion, the dedication, and the property with so much of a fascinating historical back story to it. Your property is unique. Yours is very much "one of a kind". it's had so many different uses, the versatility, and the diversity of your place is amazing. It is also dating from within your own family and the continued story after that. There is no more of a place as unique as Hopwood Hall. It is YOU who has taken on your historical family home. You will do the building, the memories proud, however you decide to move forward. If it wasn't for you, it would not have been standing for much longer. Good luck with it all and where ever your goals end up. Your enthusiasm is contagious and you're wanting to learn is energetic. Go with your family heritage in mind and heart. This is why you're there at Hopwood. ❤
Hello Hopwood, I read your book and it is a wonderful story, told so well. I highly recommend it to others! Thank you for the tour today. What an amazing destination, as Hopwood Hall will be. Thank you, again, for all the entertainment on your channel!
My daughter has a Lagotto Romagnolo originally a water dog but when the plains dried up they were retrained to hunt for truffles🐕Thank you for the education about fungi we have so many growing on the estate I live on all year round and thoroughly enjoy seeing them.
Over the last few weeks I have watched every episode of your journey Hopwood and I am just amazed at the love and care you show for your roots. It's amazing as Americans we don't get that sort of history sometimes and the fact that not only are you interested you are preserving what you can for future generations. As an American I am so proud of you! Love this channel and can't wait to see your dreams realized someday when you are open taking in clients and introducing them to the lives of your ancestors. It's awesome! So happy for you and for that community!
What a beautiful place ... so very Awesome!!! Such a treat to see this awesomely beautiful property! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I hope some day Hopwood Hall will soon be like this. All the best to you!!! Oh I hope you can do this at Hopwood Hall ... So lovely! Loved this video!!!
If you want to create the same at your estate, think now very carefully about the needed utilities ( air conditioning, heating, plumbing, water (warm/cold), data lines (fiber) you can now in the ruff state put stuff in. Later on, you wish you had thought and done it before!
Wow, just WOW! What a beautiful & well-designed home & what a treat to see it (I’d never get a foot in the door). That’s a very high bar to set but always good to have aspirations. Stunning, you lucky thing. ❤️ PS is the dog really called Harriet Beecher Stowe?!! 🥰
I was lucky enough to be married here and stay with all my friends and family in the whole house for 3 nights in 2018. Before it was pretty well known. It honestly goes down in all our books as the best weekend of our lives ❤ We had a whisky tasting and sit down 3 course dinner on Friday. Got to keep the bottles ;) Saturday was the big day, started with a huge breakfast for the masses and then garden drinks, the string band, and then down to the marquee on the tennis court for celebrations. The after party in the dungeon disco was so great. Capped off the night with fireworks and sparklers. Just perfect. Sunday we had a huge brunch and a barbeque on the beach where we went swimming in the sea and then back for movies on the huge projector in the drawing room. Casablanca to start obviously. Thanks so much Anne & Ali, we miss you two. The weekend of the millennium xXx
It is great to see that you are already getting good advice for the next phase. Knowing where you want to wind up will help in the planning of what you are doing now.
I never had any doubt your arrow would hit the balloon. After all, your ancestors were part of the Middleton Archers. I am glad you were able to spend this inspiring day at the Dunskey Estate.
For Hopwood Hall, I would think your ideas for a mixed use estate, featuring all of the arts, might be a better use for your location. Of course, revenue will always be a huge consideration. Best wishes as always Hopwood! Richard
What a fantastic tour back in time. They really nailed it with being humble and comfortable, Love it. When I'm in a position to pay $25k a night, I will put that at the top of my bucket list, until then, I will dream and live through your adventures 🤣🤣🤣🤣
What another GLORIOUS estate! One can only close their eyes and imagine what life was like at the height of these country homes. For sure, the privileged few during those times had the experience to live/stay/visit such grand homes. NOW, to survive, they are open to the masses. Of course, $25K per night still limits who can have such a grand adventure. Onward with your Hall! Looking forward to seeing videos of all the restoration progress.
Love beautiful Scotland! Will make it back there again soon! Have you visited Luke and Julie Montiqu at their Mapperton Manor House in Dorset? She is an American Vicountess.
I think that was a snooker table? They have those unmarked red balls and the other colored balls. The cut of the baize felt table-top is also thicker so it is supposed to be akin to playing lawn bowling vs bowling on the thin grey carpet of an airport concourse. It looks like a more interesting game too. (Just don't get one of those cheap plastic 1970 automated pool tables from some sort of defunct stripmall Super Arcade Land. Do subscriber donation drive to get a good quality oak snooker table.)
Hi Leta! Keep in mind it sleeps 90 people so for a huge group it makes more sense. Sorry to hear about your electric bill, I know the prices have really gone up so I fully appreciate what you are saying!
Wonderful interior but it looks like it has been stuccoed in pebble dash? It would be interesting to know what's under that. Hopwood how is it possible to get more handsome as you get older??
cheers Matthew that's very nice of you to say lol. 😀 I'm not sure what the exterior is so we'll have to ask. I would imagine that because it faces the sea it's the same type of sturdy stucco that is also throughout the local village
Very beautiful estate . But the 25k a night price tag made it less attractive to vist it😳 Most people cant afford 25k a night 😳. There are private golf ⛳️ clubs in the US that are 30k a year
You need artwork on your walls but not just old fancy ones. Since you are fixing everything up for the people think about artwork from people of the area. One time a year the artwork gets changed for new batch. You have that long hallway and it would be great to decorate with students art. Artwork of every kind. Christmas art, Halloween art. Paintings of fancy people from the 1800s? The whole area can get into that. Down the long hall and
Do take this wrong I'm old and in the US and will never we will never meet your house has a Treasure it is you you Personality your Your passionate you light up the world though TH-cam
It's a really great spot and is certainly best experienced in real life to be appreciated. The amazing thing is that for that price is can accommodate up to 90 people!! 😀
This Manor is just a missed opportunity. No symmetry, nothing interesting to adorn the front facade, boring windows/terrible window layout. And that freaking grey just makes matters worse. Being a 20th century manor house, how can it be so darn ugly?
Cheers Hopwood! My husband Bill & I met you, your Mom & Darling Dori on our new years cruise 🛳️ and totally enjoyed your company!! Do you remember Bill put me in your temporary custody while he got stitches from accidentally breaking my wine 🍷glass? As Dori said "it was a serendipity meeting!" I am thoroughly enjoying your book & website! YOU ARE AWESOME AND SO INSPIRING!! Kathy Page
Are you really considering going down a similar path and do you think such a plan would work in Middleton? You're doing wonderful work on the Hall, I hope you don't get ahead of yourself: an estate in the outback of Scotland cannot compare to your home in the sprawl of Gtr. M/Cr. Wishing you the best of rewards for all the hard work you and the team are putting in
Thanks so much Andrew! Yes while Hopwood Hall is a very different venue/location than Dunskey there are still many lessons that can be learned from what they have achieved. With the Hall being so close to Manchester we're already getting contacted to see when we'll be ready for weddings, corporate retreats/reunions, filming, etc so it is always helpful to get ideas & inspiration of how it can run in the future. cheers
I love the humble way you approach things and your honest boyish enthusiasm! It’s so much fun!!!
😀Thanks Sheryl- what a nice thing to say! ❤
Humble? Get yer head out yer arse
What a gorgeous house and estate! It looks so luxurious without being tacky or OTT.
Hopwood Hall has the advantage though - its centuries-old history that's stood through wars, industrial revolution, all the stories, characters who visited, superb historic fabric and amazing volunteers who've stopped it from collapse. That's its USP!
The Dunskey owner's advice is spot on - insulate and power the building as sustainably as possible to keep running costs down - insulated lime plaster walls, sheeps wool/wood block fibre roof insulation etc, possibly discreet solar PV on the flat roof, then you can get excited about how the spaces will function and look.
Its all very exciting and I cant wait to see the next installment. Maybe a few more Dunskey-type trips are needed..for 'research' obviously 😉
Haha thanks so much Linda! Great advice! 😀❤
I really enjoyed this tour -- it shows the importance of these grand estates being used and not closed off from the community. The fact so many locals have retained work here is a testament to the ties that keep the spirit alive (spirit 👻). Do more of these !!!!
Thank you! Yes we'll definitely look at doing more of these! 😀
Lovely. You're always a delight, Hopwood. Thank you for taking us along to Dunskey.
cheers Helen! 😀❤
Well, that was a surprise.... Dunskey is just down the road from me :)
Amazing! You certainly live in a beautiful part of the world!
Bravo Dunskey
Hopwood, you have the passion, the dedication, and the property with so much of a fascinating historical back story to it. Your property is unique. Yours is very much "one of a kind". it's had so many different uses, the versatility, and the diversity of your place is amazing. It is also dating from within your own family and the continued story after that. There is no more of a place as unique as Hopwood Hall. It is YOU who has taken on your historical family home. You will do the building, the memories proud, however you decide to move forward. If it wasn't for you, it would not have been standing for much longer. Good luck with it all and where ever your goals end up. Your enthusiasm is contagious and you're wanting to learn is energetic. Go with your family heritage in mind and heart. This is why you're there at Hopwood. ❤
Wow thank you so much. What a lovely message! 😀
Hello Hopwood, I read your book and it is a wonderful story, told so well. I highly recommend it to others! Thank you for the tour today. What an amazing destination, as Hopwood Hall will be. Thank you, again, for all the entertainment on your channel!
I really appreciate your support! Great to know you're watching!!
Wow thanks for the virtual quick vacation. Don’t worry Hopwood you will get your home looking fabulous in no time!!!
😀 Thanks Patricia!
My daughter has a Lagotto Romagnolo originally a water dog but when the plains dried up they were retrained to hunt for truffles🐕Thank you for the education about fungi we have so many growing on the estate I live on all year round and thoroughly enjoy seeing them.
Thanks Jacquie!
One day Hopwood, one day!!!!
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Hopwood what a great adventure you are taking us on! Scotland is on my bucket list. Thank you from Michigan!
Hi Darlene! It's great to have you on the adventure with us! 😀 Hello to everyone in Michigan!! ❤
Over the last few weeks I have watched every episode of your journey Hopwood and I am just amazed at the love and care you show for your roots. It's amazing as Americans we don't get that sort of history sometimes and the fact that not only are you interested you are preserving what you can for future generations. As an American I am so proud of you! Love this channel and can't wait to see your dreams realized someday when you are open taking in clients and introducing them to the lives of your ancestors. It's awesome! So happy for you and for that community!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your thoughts. Great to know you are watching!!
Looking forward to more videos........
Thanks Marg! Yes hopefully a new one will be coming out very soon!
An extraordinary experience charmingly shared 🎶
Thanks Dolores!
Fabulous! Love it💜
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What a fun and beautiful video!!! Thank you for taking us with you!
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what a great visit, I'd love to visit Scotland one day. And of course Hopwood Hall when it's ready!
That will be fantastic!
What a beautiful place ... so very Awesome!!! Such a treat to see this awesomely beautiful property! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I hope some day Hopwood Hall will soon be like this. All the best to you!!! Oh I hope you can do this at Hopwood Hall ... So lovely! Loved this video!!!
Oh that's so great to hear! Thank you so. much!! ❤
If you want to create the same at your estate, think now very carefully about the needed utilities ( air conditioning, heating, plumbing, water (warm/cold), data lines (fiber) you can now in the ruff state put stuff in. Later on, you wish you had thought and done it before!
Great advice! Thank you!
Beautiful Scottish estate. Soon Hopwood Hall will be able to provide those visitor accommodations. Thanks.
Thanks Marg!
What an inspirational place Dunskey Estate is for you to visit and us to get a glimpse of. Just starting to read your book and enjoying it! Cheers!
😀 Thanks Kathy!!
Hope you can visit more estates and take us along!
Yes will do! 😀
Wow, just WOW! What a beautiful & well-designed home & what a treat to see it (I’d never get a foot in the door). That’s a very high bar to set but always good to have aspirations. Stunning, you lucky thing. ❤️ PS is the dog really called Harriet Beecher Stowe?!! 🥰
Thanks Lisa! haha yes that is the dog's name! 😀
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Hi Alice - yes even just being there for a weekend was an adventure!
I’d love to on the floral arrangement team! Beautiful aesthetic.
Yes me too! They even had their own flower room in the house!
Thank you for taking us along.
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Nice to know about your book ... thanks for sharing.
cheers Jean! 😀
I was lucky enough to be married here and stay with all my friends and family in the whole house for 3 nights in 2018. Before it was pretty well known. It honestly goes down in all our books as the best weekend of our lives ❤ We had a whisky tasting and sit down 3 course dinner on Friday. Got to keep the bottles ;) Saturday was the big day, started with a huge breakfast for the masses and then garden drinks, the string band, and then down to the marquee on the tennis court for celebrations. The after party in the dungeon disco was so great. Capped off the night with fireworks and sparklers. Just perfect. Sunday we had a huge brunch and a barbeque on the beach where we went swimming in the sea and then back for movies on the huge projector in the drawing room. Casablanca to start obviously.
Thanks so much Anne & Ali, we miss you two. The weekend of the millennium xXx
Wow sounds incredible!!
Wow, what an amazing experience for you. Such a beautiful place but it seemed so very homely at the same time. Love from South Australia 🇦🇺 ❤I
cheers Heather!
Your youtube channel is really enjoyable. I wish you continued success in attaining your goals.
Thanks so much Glen!
I am.very impressed , your laid back and so humble all very fine attribute s . Enjoy the Scottish country side!
cheers Jeffrey!
It is great to see that you are already getting good advice for the next phase. Knowing where you want to wind up will help in the planning of what you are doing now.
Thanks Leanna!
You have so much to look forward to!
Thanks Kayce! I'm really enjoying the process- it's inspiring to see and learn from other historic homes and how they run!
A beautiful estate, I can see you got so much inspiration from the visit.
Thanks Sharon! Yes I left there with so many ideas!!
So impressive - and the people the most important.
Yes they were incredible!
Beautiful estate and I’m still waiting for book 2/❤❤
Thanks Dawn! I'm working on it 😀
Loved the house tour. The couch and the dog was so funny ❤
😅 cheers Nelle 😀
I never had any doubt your arrow would hit the balloon. After all, your ancestors were part of the Middleton Archers. I am glad you were able to spend this inspiring day at the Dunskey Estate.
Haha thanks Bryan!!
This was very cool!
Thanks Christine!
That was great! Thanks for that adventure 🎉
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For Hopwood Hall, I would think your ideas for a mixed use estate, featuring all of the arts, might be a better use for your location. Of course, revenue will always be a huge consideration. Best wishes as always Hopwood! Richard
Thanks Richard! Yes all to be considered.
What a fantastic tour back in time. They really nailed it with being humble and comfortable, Love it. When I'm in a position to pay $25k a night, I will put that at the top of my bucket list, until then, I will dream and live through your adventures 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Haha thanks- it's great to know you are watching!! 😀
I might rent it for 6 months it’s beautiful 😊
Craufurdland estate is close to Dunski.
Thank you for filming this for us. What a truly amazing place! Hello from California 😊
Hello Myniz! Thanks for watching! cheers
I love billiord rooms
Haha me too!
What another GLORIOUS estate! One can only close their eyes and imagine what life was like at the height of these country homes. For sure, the privileged few during those times had the experience to live/stay/visit such grand homes. NOW, to survive, they are open to the masses. Of course, $25K per night still limits who can have such a grand adventure. Onward with your Hall! Looking forward to seeing videos of all the restoration progress.
cheers Annis! Thank you so much!!
I laughed so much when you all thought there was a ghost only for the dog to walk out from under the couch.😂😂😂
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Love beautiful Scotland! Will make it back there again soon!
Have you visited Luke and Julie Montiqu at their Mapperton Manor House in Dorset? She is an American Vicountess.
I think that was a snooker table? They have those unmarked red balls and the other colored balls. The cut of the baize felt table-top is also thicker so it is supposed to be akin to playing lawn bowling vs bowling on the thin grey carpet of an airport concourse. It looks like a more interesting game too. (Just don't get one of those cheap plastic 1970 automated pool tables from some sort of defunct stripmall Super Arcade Land. Do subscriber donation drive to get a good quality oak snooker table.)
Hi haha thanks- yes I believe it is a snooker table but since I'm American I tend to call it a billiard or pool table 😅
There is probably a mushroom expert in the village.
Yes probably!
Ok, nothing is worth that a night. Here I am stressing over a $488 electric bill.
Hi Leta! Keep in mind it sleeps 90 people so for a huge group it makes more sense. Sorry to hear about your electric bill, I know the prices have really gone up so I fully appreciate what you are saying!
So When will you start selling Hopwood Hall bath linens and robes?
Haha I love that suggestion, that would be amazing Jonathan!
You love a good robe...but also a good wardrobe,lol
Haha yes indeed Ros!
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"Harriet Beecher Stowe!"
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At 25k a night I hope I don't hear 1bagpipe.
Hahaha they are experts in hospitality so I'm sure they will follow whatever requests you may have!
Wonderful interior but it looks like it has been stuccoed in pebble dash? It would be interesting to know what's under that. Hopwood how is it possible to get more handsome as you get older??
cheers Matthew that's very nice of you to say lol. 😀 I'm not sure what the exterior is so we'll have to ask. I would imagine that because it faces the sea it's the same type of sturdy stucco that is also throughout the local village
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How many of the staff died from your first tries to when you hit the bullseye?????
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Never seen you turn down a good robe 😅😂
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Very beautiful estate . But the 25k a night price tag made it less attractive to vist it😳 Most people cant afford 25k a night 😳. There are private golf ⛳️ clubs in the US that are 30k a year
You need artwork on your walls but not just old fancy ones. Since you are fixing everything up for the people think about artwork from people of the area. One time a year the artwork gets changed for new batch. You have that long hallway and it would be great to decorate with students art. Artwork of every kind. Christmas art, Halloween art. Paintings of fancy people from the 1800s? The whole area can get into that. Down the long hall and
Thanks- Great suggestions!
More than what most people earn in a year.......get it sold, sell the land and let the new houses be built
Hopwood, if she’s single, what ever it takes😂
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Do take this wrong I'm old and in the US and will never we will never meet your house has a Treasure it is you you Personality your Your passionate you light up the world though TH-cam
Aw thank you Aaron!
I'm not sure it's worth that much per night. I found it to be drab on the outside and too modern on the inside.
It's a really great spot and is certainly best experienced in real life to be appreciated. The amazing thing is that for that price is can accommodate up to 90 people!! 😀
Dunskey needs a deliverance by a Christian ministry
This Manor is just a missed opportunity. No symmetry, nothing interesting to adorn the front facade, boring windows/terrible window layout. And that freaking grey just makes matters worse. Being a 20th century manor house, how can it be so darn ugly?
My ancestors owned kellkenny castle but gave it to the town in the 60s it’s in Ireland 😂 very amazing castle
Wow incredible!
@@HopwoodXIV yes and I see why you love your ancestors castle we’re tied to them
Cheers Hopwood! My husband Bill & I met you, your Mom & Darling Dori on our new years cruise 🛳️ and totally enjoyed your company!! Do you remember Bill put me in your temporary custody while he got stitches from accidentally breaking my wine 🍷glass? As Dori said "it was a serendipity meeting!" I am thoroughly enjoying your book & website! YOU ARE AWESOME AND SO INSPIRING!! Kathy Page
Are you really considering going down a similar path and do you think such a plan would work in Middleton? You're doing wonderful work on the Hall, I hope you don't get ahead of yourself: an estate in the outback of Scotland cannot compare to your home in the sprawl of Gtr. M/Cr. Wishing you the best of rewards for all the hard work you and the team are putting in
Thanks so much Andrew! Yes while Hopwood Hall is a very different venue/location than Dunskey there are still many lessons that can be learned from what they have achieved. With the Hall being so close to Manchester we're already getting contacted to see when we'll be ready for weddings, corporate retreats/reunions, filming, etc so it is always helpful to get ideas & inspiration of how it can run in the future. cheers