'Ghost hotel' goes on sale for £5m after being left empty by millionaire family

The last residents living in the almost abandoned Stoke Rochford Hall were asylum seekers, but they were given their marching orders recently after a Government contract with the hotel company abruptly ended. Now, the hotel, owned by socialites Neil McCorquodale and wife Lady Sarah - elder sister of the late Princess Diana - but on a 'forever' lease to two multi-millionaire brothers, has its doors firmly closed to guests and visitors. The only people allowed access to the historic property - surrounded by 30 acres of land in the sleepy village of the same name near Grantham in Lincolnshire - are just a handful of staff.