Britain’s ‘creepiest’ house has had its auction price slashed after hopeful buyers were left petrified by bone-chilling words.
The eerie three-bedroom house, which is located in Blofield near Norwich, Norfolk, has an eerie exterior with blood red graffiti scrawled on the boarded-up windows – and its interior isn’t much more welcoming.
On 26 March, Auction House East Anglia failed to flog the property after initially asking for a guide guide price of between £275,000 and £325,000.
The auction house has since been forced to reduce the guide pride to between £250,000 to £275,000 – with owners desperate to relieve themselves of the creepy house when goes on auction again in May.
Pictures of the property reveal a filthy interior with grimy walls, debris littered across the living room floors and discoloured wallpaper.
Though most of the interior walls have been completely stripped of paint, the old fashioned wallpaper that remains is equally as spine-tingling.
A walk through the living quarters reveals a mattered carpet covered with pieces of broken furniture, dust and other indiscriminate objects.
In the living room remains a set of sofas, all of which are soiled and fraying around the edges.
The eerie three-bedroom house, which is located in Blofield, near Norwich, Norfolk, is nothing short of terrifying to look at, with blood red graffiti scrawled on the boarded windows
Amidst the piles of rubbish and dust there’s an abandoned radiator, covered in rust and grease.
The house is listed as having an energy efficiency rating of F, suggesting it is poorly insulated.
Having been left vacant for years, the house appears dank and gloomy in the photos, with the interior not having been exposed to light due to the boarded up windows.
The listing reads: ‘Of interest to cash buyers only. This three-bedroom detached house needs a complete program of renovation/refurbishment.
‘Having been in the same ownership for many years and is now to be sold with vacant possession. The house is set in a generous rectangular 0.26-acre garden in need of attention.
‘The large plot offers room to extend or redevelop, subject to the necessary consents. Off-road parking to the front with overgrown front, side and rear gardens with a hard standing area where a detached double garage once stood.
A walk through the living quarters reveals a mattered carpet covered with pieces of broken furniture, dust and other indiscriminate objects.
Amidst the piles of rubbish and dust, an abandoned radiator lies, its surface cloaked in layers of rust and grime
‘The water tank has been removed, leaving exposed pipes, and heating was previously provided via a back boiler.’
It comes after data revealed that a quarter of Brits believe they live in a haunted house.
Last year British singer Adele told a chat show that Grade-II listed Lock House in the village of Partridge Green in West Sussex, was ‘unsellable’ and that she had found living there ‘quite scary’.
The 10-bedroom home, which has indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a tennis court and a helicopter pad, does have an interesting past.
The property, which was built in 1900 for the wealthy Harvey family, operated as a convent from the 1970s until the turn of the century.
And the spooky house had a dark past.
In 1933, a 23-year-old nurse who worked for a wealthy couple in Partridge Green was found dead on the nearby railway line.
The Convent of the Visitation closed when the order of nuns ‘could not maintain the building’, a parish councillor said in 2002. It was then converted back into a home.
It comes after data revealed that a quarter of Brits believe they live in a haunted house
In the 1950s, after the Harvey family had renovated and extended the property, Lock House was twice targeted by thieves.
In 1951, Mrs Harvey was woken up by burglars, a local newspaper reported.
The West Sussex County Times reported she called for her husband, who ‘chased the raiders as they escaped’.
Three years later, Lock House was ‘ransacked’ by criminals when the family were away in London. It was believed the amount stolen was ‘considerable’.
One resident lovingly recalled the Harvey family in a forum online. They wrote in 2013: ‘Mr Harvey used to ride around on his horse with a pair of binoculars.
‘My father worked for him during the middle era of the war.’
In 1955, a soldier from the Royal Sussex Regiment was found suffering from a gunshot wound in a ‘lonely spot’ in Partridge Green, the Mail reported at the time.
Three years later, a 14-year-old boy was killed after touching an electric fence in the village.
Adele spoke about Lock House in an interview with CBS in 2012. She told Anderson Cooper the house was ‘a bit of a cliche’.
She went on: ‘This bit’s all quite scary, really. It was a convent for a little while.