Adele Sussex Mansion

The £15,000-a-month Sussex mansion Adele began renting in February this year

As Someone Like You singer Adele is named the sixth richest under 30-year-old in the world, it’s evident her new wealth is being ploughed into property as she casts around for a £10m London property and prepares to buy a £2.5m Brighton seafront house next door to Fat Boy Slim and Zoe Ball, our friends at Zoopla revealed.

Which means it’s curtains for the £15,000-a-month Sussex mansion she began renting in February this year.


Lock House has a fascinating history featuring the sort of heartache Adele loves to sing about.

But Lock House, which she was filmed walking around for a US television show recently, and which has now been put up for rent again on Zoopla.co.uk, has a fascinating history featuring the sort of heartache Adele loves to sing about.

This includes links to a doomed land speed record holder, Turkish royalty, a troubled property tycoon and an order of nuns.


Lock House was built in 1900

Lock House was built in 1900 but by the 1930s had become the home of Andrew Harvey, father of world speed record holder Donald Campbell’s wife Gina Harvey.

Then, in 1971, the house became a nunnery belonging to the Roman Catholic Order of the Visitation, which in turn sold it on in 2003 for £2m to a Turkish princess, Ayse Gulnev Sutton, wife of high rolling London-based property developer Nick Sutton.

At the time of buying Lock House Nick Sutton had recently been voted Young Property Person of the Year and was riding high both as the founder of several successful businesses and as the ‘secret’ buyer of Craven Cottage, Fulham FC’s west London home ground – a deal which (happily for fans) fell through.

After this the couple, who cut dashing figures on the London social scene, then concentrated on their hotel development firm, which went on to build and operate famous name hotels including Brighton’s seafront Lansdowne Hotel.

While building a Radisson hotel in Cardiff, which is now the city’s tallest, their firm’s operation in the city was reported to be in administration leaving behind unpaid bills of up to £3 million. It is now in the hands of a receiver, Deloitte.

The couple have not lived in Lock House now for over a 18 months.

Source & Images courtesy of Zoopla