An aerial view of Lock House in West Sussex, England. The owner wants
to convert the home into separate dwellings as a buyer can’t be found.
Photograph: Invicta Kent Media/Shutterstoc
Posted on 01/22/2025 5:55:27 PM PST by BenLurkin
It may seem a bit of harmless fun, but not for the owner, who claims the 10-bedroom home set in almost 3 hectares (7.4 acres) of land near the village of Partridge Green is unsaleable in its current state.
The planning statement says the Grade II-listed house is surrounded by grounds with “roaming deer, mature oak, cedar, Scots pine and lime trees” and views towards the South Downs.
It was built at the start of the 20th century and a ballroom was added in 1940. In the 1970s it was converted into the “convent of the visitation” and the ballroom was converted into a chapel.
The current owner bought it in 2003 and refurbished it, turning the ballroom/chapel into a family kitchen. It now has a cinema room, snooker room, a “leisure complex” with a swimming pool, tennis court and a summer house.
Adele rented it for six months after the owner moved out. But the planning statement says: “Unfortunately, during an interview on CBS, Adele remarked that she believed the house to be haunted. This comment negatively impacted future marketing efforts and continues to affect the property’s reputation to this day.”
It adds: “Adele … blighted the property saying it is haunted”, continuing: “The applicant has actively tried to sell the property for about 14 years. Despite the property being consistently marketed by top agents, no offers have been forthcoming.
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“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.”
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Perfect.
Well Harold Ramis has become a ghost (died in 2014). The other 3 are still around but a bit long in the tooth now.
West Sussex? Maybe it has been blighted by the Duchess of Sussex.
I think the bigger problem is that the wealthy don’t see Great Britain as an attractive place to live any longer. There’s something wrong that goes beyond high taxes. I remember the idiot George Clooney claiming that his family wasn’t safe there.
5000 dollars wouldn’t even rate rolling out the proton packs.
Not exactly a lot of money these days.
Maybe that’s what I should do. Find perfectly good homes that are going cheap because they are “haunted.”
Shouldn’t that raise the price?
Adele has FU money. She doesn’t care.
I thought the potential investor had a clever idea — buy it and divide it up into apartments or condo units. Because for whatever reason, ghosts don’t seem to haunt apartment complexes.
LOL! You’re right! 😄
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