Florence Welch’s £1,900,000 country mansion could quite literally be hiding a few skeletons in the closet.
The Florence and the Machine star, 38, plans for extensive building work at her Somerset home could uncover ‘human remains.’
The Dog Days Are Over singer purchased the sprawling 12th-century estate four years ago to realise her dream of living in a ‘gothic’ setting away from London.
She recently snapped up the fourth property in the ground and plans to re-unify all the buildings in plans that have been approved by the local council.
However, The Sun reports that an archaeological survey has warned the homes could be concealing medieval skeletons.
Submitted to Somerset Council by John Moore Heritage Services, the report says there ‘is clear potential for archaeological remains dating to the medieval period.’
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It adds: ‘If human remains are encountered and have to be removed, they will be cleaned, recorded and lifted in accordance with a Ministry of Justice licence.
‘Exhumation and post-excavation treatment will be carried out in accordance with published. All associated deposits, e.g. pyre sites, mausolea and mortuary enclosures, will also be fully investigated and excavated.’
The publication claims Florence has agreed to give any historical artefacts to the Somerset Museums Service.
More than a decade ago, the Shake It Out singer revealed her plans to live in a historical setting.
She told Vogue in 2011: ‘I really want a Gothic castle. Or a church, but I haven’t had time. I’ve only been home for about two weeks in the last two years.’
Florence is not the only celebrity to have spooky happenings in their home.
This Country star Daisy May Cooper, 38, revealed she was forced to move out of her Wiltshire home after enduring supernatural encounters for three years.
Guests recounted strange noises, the smell of cigarette smoke and even seeing ‘shadow figures’, while Daisy’s housekeepers revealed pictures kept being mysteriously taken down and found in weird positions on the landing.
The Am I Being Unreasonable star also said she saw children’s severed legs running past her bed.
‘I cant remember what happened first, whether it was the sound or the security light that comes on on my landing, but the sound is actually the thing that scares me the most,’she told Danny Robins on his hit BBC podcast, Uncanny.
It was the sound of feet running on a wooden floor and what I can only describe as a pair of children’s legs, a 7 or 8 year old, and it had these white shorts on, and these legs ran around the bed and me and my son both tracked it for a matter of seconds then it was just gone. It completely vanished.
‘It was the most extraordinary thing I’ve ever seen.’
Daisy then learnt that a boy had drowned in the nearby lake, which was visible from the window to the spare room, in 1959.
She continued: ‘It’s so funny and it’s so ridiculous, and I know what people think when I say it and how stupid it sounds, but I saw what I did and the sound of that thing coming in was terrifying. I can’t ever get the sound out of my head. It was horrible.’
Metro has contacted Florence’s rep for comment.
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