AMAZING AUCTION MARKS END OF AN ERA WILLIAM SITWELL AND HIS SISTER HENRIETTA HEIRS TO A LITERARY DYNASTY TELL OF PARTING WITH TREASURES FROM THE FAMILY SEAT, WESTON HALL

t was the Sitwell family seat for over 300 years, playing host throughout its colourful history to aristocrats, bohemians and society figures such as Cecil Beaton, Evelyn Waugh and Noël Coward. But since selling the 17th-century grade II*-listed Northamptonshire manor house, Weston Hall, for £3.25m earlier this year, its former owners have been preparing to put a treasure trove of items under the hammer at a two-day