Spade house home of h g wells - Sandgate places to see

Spade House

Home of H.G.Wells from 1901 to 1909, designed by C.F.A. Voysey. Wells wrote several of his best known works here, including Kipps, Tono-Bungay and Ann Veronica, and entertained many leading writers of the time, including Bernard Shaw, Henry James, Arnold Bennett and Joseph Conrad.

His minor little-known novel The Sea Lady opens on Sandgate Beach.

Spade House was the first real home of Wells and his wife Jane their two sons were born here (it is not at present shown to visitors).