Hello from the other side: Adele’s ‘haunted house’ claim scares off buyers of her old £6m mansion, owner says
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Adele rented Grade II listed house for six months and owner claims he has struggled to sell after Adele’s public comments about the home. Typically, when a starry celebrity has lived in a home that comes up for sale, their very association with the property can add to its appeal for a potential buyer.
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However, this is far from the case concerning the £6 million country mansion Lock House in West Sussex, which Adele once lived in for six months, and according to the owner, scared off future buyers by saying it was haunted. The owner, Nicholas Sutton, has claimed in a planning statement that he has struggled to sell the Grade II listed house and is currently seeking permission to turn the ten-bedroom property into apartments instead because Adele made the home “unsellable”.
![[Inside Lock House, West Sussex, where Adele lived for six months]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/23/09/87537105-0-The_hallway_has_an_elegant_dark_wood_staircase_and_fireplace_Mr_-a-27_1737580212151-copy.jpg)
The award-winning “Rolling in the Deep” musician appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes in 2012 and showed host Anderson Cooper around the home. During the interview, the singer-songwriter remarked she found the home “quite scary”, but did not say she thought it was haunted. A British tabloid published an article claiming the singer was convinced the house was haunted, while Hello! magazine included the home in a list of celebrity’s ghostly homes.
![[Adele with CBS interviewer Anderson Cooper outside Lock House]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/23/09/Screenshot-2025-01-23-at-09.08.37.jpg)
In a planning application presented to Horsham district council, Sutton said that the property operated as a convent in the Seventies before he purchased it in 2003. When he became the owner, he carried out “significant refurbishment”, in which he converted the chapel into a family kitchen, and added a swimming pool. He claimed that since renting the property to Adele, potential buyers have been put off by her comments.
