That bargain price is just the start of a costly challenge for Michael Pasquarello, who wants to redevelop Boxwood Hall, a historic but dilapidated and long-vacant building at 65 Haddon Avenue.

Lord Edward Manners hauls his Land Rover up the hill into the medieval parkland at Haddon Hall. The view from the ... one part of the 30-year restoration plan he instituted in the late 1990s.