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Incredible plans for ‘super’ holiday cottage with a pool, gym, and two spas on grounds of Adele’s ‘haunted’ mansion
PLANS to build a “super” holiday cottage have been submitted on the grounds of an estate house once dubbed “haunted” by Adele.
The proposals would see a barn on the estate in Partridge Green, West Sussex, transformed into a luxury eight-bedroom rental property.
It would be built to include a swimming pool, hot tub, gym, and two spa treatment rooms.
Adele lived on the West Sussex estate back in 2012 when her career began to skyrocket after the success of her first album, 21.
The superstar singer, 37, gave a tour of the ten-bedroom Lock House to US TV saying it’s “all quite scary”.
She added: “I’m not rattling around here on my own. It gives me the creeps.”
The plans to convert the barn, located around 250m down the driveway from the historic main house, have been submitted.
But the proposals have sparked fury among locals around the estate.
One neighbour commented on the planning application: “The building is obviously brutalistically ugly as it stands, and totally out of keeping with Sussex architecture.
“It would appear more appropriate for the Costa Brava.
“It certainly does nothing to reflect or enhance Lock House’s environs.”
The plans are tailored for family and friends’ weekend getaways, featuring a spacious open-plan living, dining and kitchen area.
Earlier this year, the Suttons got planning permission approved to divide the main house into separate dwellings, in another move that upset the neighbours.
One said: “Splitting the house into five, turning outbuildings into holiday lets, building a barn for a non-existent farm, and now this ugly,
supposed ‘super’ holiday ranch will combine to make this a major
commercial enterprise.
“Gradually, the beautiful, listed Edwardian Art Deco home will be engulfed and then subsumed into a major commercial complex.”
Property tycoon Nicholas Sutton, who owns the Grade II listed building, complained that Adele’s remarks had made it difficult to shift the main house, which was originally on the market for £6 million.
Sutton said: “[Her] comment negatively impacted future marketing efforts and continues to affect the property’s reputation to this day.”
Sutton and his wife Ayse, a Turkish princess, have been trying to sell the property since 2010.
In his planning submission, he said that “the first tenant, Adele, stayed for six months and blighted the property by saying it is haunted.”
Despite boasting ten bedrooms, ten bathrooms, two swimming pools, a cinema room and even a helicopter pad, the main house has failed to sell after more than a decade on the market.
The mansion was built in 1900 and redesigned in the 1930s in an art deco style, but Partridge Green is notorious for ghostly tales.
A couple fled the village as their house was haunted by a face that would “fill the room” and the local pub The Green Man supposedly had a “cat ghost”.
A would-be buyer pulled out in 2020, citing fears over the house’s alleged haunted reputation.
