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Manchester Evening News
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Phoebe Jobling

'We bought a run-down drug den for £225,000 and spent £2 million transforming it'

A couple who bought a run-down 'drug den' have spent millions transforming and restoring it to its former glory. Reg and Elizabeth Price say they made a 'daft' offer for a 200-year-old property which had fallen into disrepair and been taken over by squatters.

The pair bought the abandoned house for £225,000 back in 2013 and have spent the last decade renovating it, which has cost them around £2 million. The couple have since managed to turn the depilated graffiti-covered home in Cornwall back into a stately home.

The now-beautiful Regency Grade-II listed home, which boasts 29 rooms, was built between 1810 and 1815 but had been left derelict for six years and was reportedly being used by drug addicts.

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