The one-mile meandering drive to this country house hotel and wedding venue, close to Plymouth in South Devon, is well worth the wait. At the end of the tree-lined driveway, you’ll be greeted by the silvery facade of our 500-year-old former manor house.
Sarah Martin wrote the Old Mother Hubbard Nursery Rhymes here. Kitley House Hotel also has a rich family history, encompassing armoury, heraldry, literature, architecture and the fine arts. The manor started life as the ancestral home of relatives of the Bastard family, who still run it today, but has historic and ancestral connections to a range of famous people, from Captain Pownall, to William Butler Yeats. How many of your ancestors stayed here over these 500 years?