Weston Hall

Weston Hall

Weston Hall is the Sitwell family house in Northamptonshire.

It is in the village of Weston in the south of the county. It was the home of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell and his wife, the Canadian beauty Georgia Doble, from 1927 until his death in 1988. It was there that he wrote many of his 130 books on travel, art, music and poetry. The house was given to Sitwell's ancestor Susanna Jennens in 1714 as a St Valentine's Day present from her uncle Sir John Blencowe from nearby Marston St Lawrence after the death of her husband. The property was then inherited through the generations down the female line until Sacheverell's father the eccentric Sir George Sitwell took a lease on the house from an aunt. Each generation left its own indelible mark on the house and its contents. It is available to visit by private invitation via susanna.sitwell@uwclub.net.

:"see also Renishaw Hall"


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