Robbie Williams selling £9 million ‘haunted’ Wiltshire mansion in Switzerland move

Williams has previously said that the house ‘gives him the creeps’ and first tried to sell it in 2010
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On the move: Williams and his wife Ayda Field have reportedly purchased a £24 million villa near Lake Geneva
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Ailis Brennan23 February 2021

Robbie Williams has reportedly put his 17th century Wiltshire manor up for sale, after having suggested that the property is haunted.

The move comes amid reports that the former Take That singer is planning to relocate permanently to Switzerland with his wife, actress Ayda Field, 41, and their four children, having recently purchased a £24 million villa near Lake Geneva.

According to The Mirror, the £9 million, 75-acre Compton Bassett home boasts its own football pitch, tennis court, swimming pool and helicopter pad.

Having purchased the property back in 2008, Williams first put the mansion on the market as early as 2010, but is understood to have been unable to sell it.

Speaking last year on Instagram Live, the star revealed that the house “gives him the creeps” and that his eldest daughter had been scared to sleep in one of the rooms.

“There is one room that I am suspicious of… Teddy, our daughter, was sleeping in there. She doesn’t any more.

“When she was getting old enough to speak, I said to her, ‘Do you like the bedroom? Do you like the house?’... And she said, ‘That room scares me’. I said, ‘OK, it scares me too. You don’t have to sleep there any more’.”

Williams and Field have been staying in Switzerland since last year, in what Williams told BBC Radio 2 was a bid to steer clear of the coronavirus pandemic, as he was “a bit neurotic”.

The couple also own a £26 million property in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, as well as a £17.5 million home in London’s Holland Park, which has been the subject of a high profile planning dispute with Led Zeppelin guitarist and next door neighbour Jimmy Page since 2014.

A representative for Williams was contacted by the Standard, but offered no comment.

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