ENN106909 - Armada House, 2012 (Building Recording)

Armada House, Weston, is reputed to be a 16th-century manor house with 17th century and later alterations. A north range has been severely damaged by fire, a south fire-damaged and affected to a lesser degree. A pair of apparently medieval cruckblades stand in the south range, indicating a potentially earlier origin, while that same range appears to have been re-fronted in its present form. From the second quarter of the 20th century the house was owned by the noted literary figure Sir Sachaverell Sitwell, and his wife Georgia, one of whose principal family homes was the nearby Weston Hall. There is disparate cartographic, documentary and photographic record for the house. A programme of further work has been scoped for watching brief attendance and thereafter production of an expansion of this report to provide an appropriate Heritage Asset Survey, leading to long-term management data on this notable building.