Adele’s house ‘unsellable’ after singer claimed it was haunted

The owner has accused Adele of thwarting the $11 million property sale after dropping hints about paranormal activity. 

British singer Adele rented Lock House in West Sussex, England, for six months in 2012. 

The heritage-listed manor and former convent is currently for sale for £5,995,000 ($AU11,788,000). 

However, owner Nicholas Sutton claims he has been forced to convert the manor into apartments after comments made by Adele in a 2012 interview made the property “unsellable”. 

“Unfortunately, during an interview on CBS, Adele remarked that she believed the house to be haunted,” Sutton wrote in a planning application seen and reported on by The Times.

“This comment negatively impacted future marketing efforts and continues to affect the property’s reputation to this day.”

In the interview, Adele said Lock House was “all quite scary”. 

“I’m not rattling around here on my own. It gives me the creeps,” she said. 

Interviewer Anderson Cooper asked the singer, “Have you ever heard of The Shining?” 

Adele did not use the word “haunted” during the interview. However, around the time of the interview, tabloids circulated reports that Adele had hired a bodyguard to stay in the house with her at night. 

Sutton states he has actively tried to sell the property for 14 years without success. 

“The first tenant, Adele, stayed for six months and blighted the property by saying it is haunted,” he said in the application.

“The only offer received over the years was in August 2020, but the prospective buyer withdrew after learning about the property’s supposed haunted status, which was publicly mentioned by Adele during her tenancy.”

Lock House is described in the listing as “a substantial, Grade II listed country house enjoying wonderful views to the South Downs.” 

It comes with two studies, a cinema room, a swimming pool, tennis court, sauna, wine cellar, snooker room, and 32 acres of land. 

The property was originally built in 1909, and spent a period as a convent for nuns in the 1970s. 

It’s a short drive north of the popular seaside town of Brighton.