08/05/2025
“What’s meant for you, will not pass you by.”
Kitson House started out as a lifelong dream for David. Having spent every summer holiday coming to Scarborough 🦀 as a child, he had fond memories of his ‘happy place’ ⛱️ spent with his family. Meeting Gill meant she was soon taken to Scarborough 🐟 and when Thomas 👶 came along it was always going to be his first holiday 🍦.
3 years ago on a lone trip north to visit family, David was sent to view a few houses 🏘️ in Scarborough on a grey January day. This house was a ‘wild card’🃏, it wasn’t meant to be a serious prospect and the pictures didn’t show it off to its best. David fell in love with the charm of the house 🏠 as well as its position giving it stunning views 🌅 from every window in all directions of -
🏖️ South Bay beach
🏰 Scarborough Castle
⛵️ Scarborough Harbour and Lighthouse
🏛️ Scarborough Spa
⛰️ Oliver’s Mount
🌊 The coastline towards Filey
The house was also in the charming Old Town and you could be on the seafront 🐬 in a couple of minutes from the back door. The house was perfect! After narrowly losing out in the bidding for it, we had to accept it wasn’t to be. Until a week later, it was….when the previous buyers pulled out! 😊
Fast forward a year of wallpaper scraping and finding (and then looking again) for the right trades 👨🔧to replace the bathroom 🛁 and add another, Kitson House was launched. We are delighted that we can share the house with others looking to make memories 🫏 of their own time in Scarborough 🦞 with their families 👫 and grandparents 👵👨🦳 too under one roof.
So Gill is guest relations 💬, Thomas is interiors🪞and board game 🎲 consultant and David is everything else 🛠️ on site when the guests aren’t there!
The saying at the start is what the previous owners said to us when we met them….the same time that Gill and Thomas saw the house for the first time 😃
