History
The house was built in 1625 by George Sitwell (1601–67) who, in 1653, was High Sheriff of Derbyshire. The Sitwell fortune was made as colliery owners and ironmasters from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
Substantial alterations and the addition of the west and east ranges were made to the building for Sir Sitwell Sitwell by Joseph Badger of Sheffield between 1793 and 1808 and further alterations were made in 1908 by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
For over a century, Renishaw only had two owners; between 1862 (when Sir George Sitwell succeeded in his infancy) and 1965, when Sir Osbert Sitwell gave the house to his nephew.
The owner of the hall from 1965 until 2009 was Sir Reresby Sitwell, 7th Baronet Sitwell of Renishaw, the eldest son of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell brother of Edith and Osbert. He bequeathed the family seat to his daughter Alexandra Hayward. The house and estate are separated from the Renishaw baronetcy for the first time in the family's history; Sir George Sitwell lives at Weston Hall.
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