Owner of Adele’s previous home accuses singer of making it unsellable with haunting claims

Adele has recovered herself astatine the halfway of an unexpected controversy, this clip related to a £6million mansion she erstwhile lived in.

The £6 cardinal spot successful West Sussex, which the Hello hitmaker lived successful for six months successful 2012, has reportedly faced trouble successful uncovering a buyer, and 1 important origin seems to beryllium her comments astir the house’s spooky reputation.

In an interrogation with CBS’s Anderson Cooper that aired the aforesaid year, Adele described the mansion arsenic ‘quite scary,’ which sparked rumors that it mightiness beryllium haunted.

Although the vocalist ne'er straight claimed that the spot was ghostly, a work ran with the idea, and Hello! mag adjacent included the mansion successful its database of ‘celebrity ghostly homes.’

The implications of her remark, however, look to person lingered acold longer than expected.

According to existent proprietor Nicholas Sutton, the rumors surrounding the house’s eerie presumption person importantly impacted its marketability.

Sutton, who purchased the spot successful 2003, claims that the alleged haunting has made it astir intolerable to sell.

He says that the mansion, known arsenic Lock House, has been ‘actively marketed’ for implicit 14 years by apical agencies similar Savills and Strutt and Parker but has failed to unafraid superior offers.

‘The lone connection received implicit the years was successful August 2020, but the prospective purchaser withdrew aft learning astir the property’s expected haunted status, which was publically mentioned by Adele during her tenancy,’ Sutton told The Independent.

He expressed vexation that Adele’s remark astir the location has go a large stumbling artifact successful his attempts to merchantability it.

Because of this, Sutton has projected a alteration successful absorption for the property.

He is petitioning Horsham District Council to assistance support to person the mansion into flats, citing the property’s deficiency of request successful its existent signifier arsenic a large hurdle to a sale. The readying exertion is inactive nether review.

Sutton’s connection aims to sphere the building’s humanities value portion addressing the request for lodging successful the area.

‘This connection provides the optimum viable usage of Lock House, preserving its humanities value portion delivering much-needed housing,’ helium explained successful the application.

The application, helium said, is the effect of implicit 13 years of marketplace testing, which has shown that converting the spot could supply a balanced, sustainable solution.

Interestingly, Lock House’s past adds different furniture to the intrigue. It erstwhile operated arsenic a convent successful the 1970s, which could besides play into the mansion’s spooky reputation, whether oregon not Adele’s comments were to blame.

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