About us
Your hosts are David and Gill who together share a great fondness for Scarborough where many childhood holidays were spent by David. Kitson House has been styled and kitted out in a way that we would hope to find ourselves if on a short UK break.
Further information
Please contact Gill on 07957252427 or at gill@gbshortstays.co.uk
How we started
“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 went 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 the beach, the castle, the arbour and lighthouse, the Spa, Oliver's Mount the North Yorkshire 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.