Spooky kettles and a girl in white: Adele’s ‘scary’ mansion not all that’s haunting Sussex village
Spooky kettles and a girl in white: Adele’s ‘scary’ mansion not all that’s haunting Sussex village
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Owners claim singer ‘blighted’ sale of property she once rented but Partridge Green has no shortage of ghostly tales. At first it was the strange rumblings that would wake her. Then bright lights would fill the bedroom as a face appeared, looking down on her. Her husband, who worked nights, never believed her until one day, he saw it too.
![[Sammy Gecsoyler]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2023/06/16/Sammy_Gecsoyler.png?width=75&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
Shaken by the sightings, the couple sold the cottage and moved far away from Partridge Green, a quaint, isolated village in West Sussex. Thirty years later, a short distance away from where these night-time hauntings took place, the village welcomed a surprising new arrival.
![[Adele]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/17bb8f3bc21df935ff115a858a14df9ae2e76e56/1294_0_1251_751/master/1251.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
Adele, fresh off the heady success of her second album, 21, moved to Lock House, a grand mansion hidden up a winding country road. In a 2012 interview, she cheerily gave the CNN journalist Anderson Cooper a tour of the home, which used to be a convent.
![[Bethany Illes from the Green Man pub in Partridge Green]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/656e6160c2942cd4cd822986a4ad2b205423cc2c/816_974_6570_3944/master/6570.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
In between clips of Adele playing Angry Birds and the pair starting an impromptu cooking show entitled Rolling in the Dough, she remarked that the house was “quite scary”. These off-the-cuff comments have now become central to a planning battle that could result in the mansion being converted into three houses and a cottage. The owners say they have struggled to sell it because Adele “blighted the property [by] saying it is haunted”. The singer never directly called Lock House “haunted”.
![[Graham duHeaume]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/308ff1d6e3c9dd155720685a29aa6a8c919e140f/0_546_8192_4918/master/8192.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
