It is a Grade I listed building and has been the home of the Sitwell family for nearly 400 years.

[1] The hall is southeast of Sheffield, and north of Renishaw village, which is northeast of Chesterfield.

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.

The 7th Baronet was the eldest son of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell and owned the hall from 1965 until 2009 when he bequeathed it to his daughter, Alexandra Hayward.

It is constructed in ashlar and coursed rubble coal measures sandstone with crenellated parapets with pinnacles.