Michael D.Heath-Caldwell M.Arch.

Kitlands House

Kitlands, near Holmwood, 1860s. 

Diary of Genesta Heath (aged 18) - Friday 27th April 1917

Kitlands is another family home, said to date from Saxon times. It is a rambling old house, enlarged from time to time, and set in a wonderful garden. Here there are walls of rhododendrons, glades of roses and azaleas and some exotic and quite famous trees, brought back from distant lands by my grandfather, the sailor Leopold Heath (Admiral Sir Leopold Heath), and given to his brother Douglas who was a dedicated gardener.

However, might have the wrong house.

Vigo, near Holmwood  

Kitlands, Holmwood in 1824

Garden scene at Kitlands painted by Julia Heath of the view from the new rooms added by D.D. Heath .

Kitlands scene painted by Sir Leopold Heath.

Scene 'Bath Gardens at Kitlands as arranged by Serjeant Heath' and painted by Sir Leopold Heath

View of part of Kitlands in 1824

Kitlands House, with later additions, since removed I think.