wanted the house. Kings Weston house was old and damp, it was old fashioned, the roof was leaking and it had wood worm. It was too large and expensive to run so the grounds were sold for the building of houses in the 1920s when Sea Mills and Shirehampton became council estates. All of this added up to the decline of Kings Weston House, in the end some one bought the house, renovated it and turned it into a conference centre and restaurant.