Some spirits apparently gave Adele a “hello from the other side” at the English mansion that she rented in 2012—rendering it unsellable, if you ask the current owner. According to the BBC, the owner of the landmarked Lock House in Partridge Green, West Sussex, has struggled to sell the place ever since the singer allegedly said it haunted. The owner, who reportedly bought the 32-acre property in 2003, has been trying to offload it for 14 years, per the BBC. In the hopes of rectifying the situation, the owner has submitted plans for approval that involve dividing the Grade II-listed 10-bedroom manse into three separate units and converting a garage into a cottage.
“The first tenant, Adele, stayed for six months and blighted the property by saying it is haunted,” the request claims. “This comment negatively impacted future marketing efforts and continues to affect the property’s reputation to this day.”
Early on in her tenancy at the mansion, which was originally built in 1909, the “Rolling in the Deep” singer invited Anderson Cooper inside during an interview for CBS’s 60 Minutes. While she did not explicitly say that the house was haunted, she did say, “This bit’s all quite scary, really. It was a convent for a little while,” while showing the news host around. Subsequent tabloid reporting added fuel to the fire, citing an anonymous source who claimed that Adele was “convinced [the home] is haunted” and hired a bodyguard so that she wouldn’t have to sleep alone on the expansive property. “I’m not rattling around here on my own. It gives me the creeps,” she allegedly said to a friend.
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The request to renovate states that the closest it ever got to selling was in 2020, but the prospective buyer allegedly withdrew their offer after finding out it could be haunted. Priced at about $7.5 million, the nearly 20,000-square-foot pad boasts both indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a tennis court, a helipad, a sauna, and a wine cellar.
