'Haunted house' in Staffordshire up for sale for £2 million

Standon Hall, a former care home, has been sitting empty since March 2016 – and has become an attraction for fans of all things eerie.

There were fears amongst local residents that it would be turned into a ‘haunted house’, especially after ghost hunting evenings were organised at the grounds.

The Grade II-listed home, north of Stafford, has now appeared on online property site Rightmove, from estate agents Allsop, with experts describing it as having ‘potential for development’.

ButAnd if you want to make it your own, it will set you back £1.85 million.

Apartments

A planning application has already been submitted to turn the hall into 16 one and two bedroom apartments and three three-bedroom apartments, together with the conversion of the outbuildings into seven homes.

Experts from Allsop have said: “The property comprises a detached Grade II listed building arranged over basement, ground, first and second floors beneath a pitched roof. There are also three outbuildings each arranged over ground floor only beneath a pitched roof.”

The Hall was formally owned and built for Sir Thomas Anderton Salt, a director of the North Staffordshire Railway company, but its use as a family home was short-lived, with it being sold to Staffordshire County Council in 1925 for hospital use.

It was used as a nursing home until March 2016, when it closed due to funding.

Back in August 2016 a planning application was put forward to change the hall’s use from a ‘residential institution’ into a ‘dwelling’.

But residents became concerned after seeing tickets for various ‘haunted house’ events listed for sale at the site online.

Website mosthauntedexperience.com was selling tickets for ghost hunting evenings at the site in the winter months, calling Standon Hall an ‘abandoned nursing home’ and warning potential customers ‘this location has bare witness to extreme poltergeist activity’.

Locals said the ghost-hunting events would ‘impact on a peaceful rural community’.

Standon Hall will go up for sale by auction on October 25.

The property will be open for viewing every Monday and Wednesday before the auction between 3 and 3.30 pm.

These are open viewing times with no need to register.

Visit allsop.co.uk and search Lot 219 for more.