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CurrentKings Weston House is one of Bristol's forgotten treasures - in its time it has entertained kings and sheltered wounded soldiers - but for many years it languished in the shadows, seen fleetingly by motorists rushing along the M5. The current Kings Weston House was built between 1710 and 1723 on the site of an Elizabethan manor house.Its colourful history has included becoming a hospital for soldiers wounded during the First World War, and as a training centre for the CID in the 1970s.Situated high up on a hill overlooking the Severn Estuary and Avonmouth, the 28 acres of wooded parkland surrounding Kings Weston House are popular with local walkers.Although only small by stately home standards - just 18 bedrooms, 12 of which would have been servants quarters - Kings Weston House has some unique features.Owners the Southwell family had commissioned esteemed architect Sir John Vanbrugh, designer of Blenheim Palace, to create their new home.Hanging staircase Kings Weston HouseA staircase built in 1710 is one of only two "hanging" staircases left in the world, the other is in St Petersburg. Made of mahogany and oak it seems to balance without any support, rocking slightly like a rope bridge when used.Another unique feature remaining in the house is a pair of antlers set above the front door. They are from the Irish Elk, a species extinct for more than 200,000 years.It's thought that a member of the Southwell family who was Secretary of State for Ireland, brought them back to adorn his home after they were discovered in a peat bog. The only other remnants of the Irish Elk can be found in Bristol Museum and the Natural History Museum.Although not resident in the house since 1832 the Southwells still keep a kindly eye on visitors from the walls of the main entrance hall.Thirty-six original portraits, mostly of the Southwells and their friends, have been renovated and reinstated here.
