Adele rented Grade II-listed house for six months and is named in planning document as owner says he can’t find buyer

Usually there is a little bit of cachet when one of the world’s most famous and beloved stars in show business has lived in a sprawling pile that comes up for sale.

But not in the case of Lock House, which, according to the vendor, has failed to find a buyer because the singer Adele has blighted it by saying it was haunted.