Kitawah, Heritage residence in East Brisbane, Australia.

Kitawah is a high-set timber house on stumps at 59 Heath Street, East Brisbane, with verandahs on three sides and a massive hipped roof of Marseilles-pattern terracotta tiles. Two tall masonry chimneys rise above the roof, and a skirt of timber battens fills the spaces between the posts. The entry staircase from Heath Street leads to a central landing under a timber pergola, and a large weatherboard gable carries a bold decorative screen in the plane of the bargeboards.

Kitawah was built in 1911 for solicitor Llewellyn Stephens, eleventh child of former Brisbane mayor Thomas Blacket Stephens, on subdivision H bought in 1909 at Barker and Heath Streets. Architect Robin Dods designed it before moving to Sydney in 1913. A north-west bedroom wing was added between 1915 and 1919, altering the roof form and shifting the front stairs off-axis from the door. The Stephens family sold it in 1943.

The house was built for Llewellyn Stephens and his wife Gladys, who held a monthly "at home" for visitors; six of their children were born here. The Parer family, who bought it in 1943, renamed it Wewak after a plantation they owned in Papua New Guinea. The name Kitawah returned in 1969 under Dr James Hemsley.

Kitawah stands at 59 Heath Street, East Brisbane, on a block entered by driveways on both sides; the former tennis court is now a level grassed area at the front. The house is privately owned, having been sold to the Anglican Church Grammar School in April 2012, so it is not open for public tours. The entry staircase from Heath Street rises from two sides to a central landing beneath a timber pergola.

The house carried different names throughout its history and was briefly known as Wewak before reverting to Kitawah. This change occurred when a new owner, Dr. James Hemsley, acquired the property in 1969 and established a different identity for it.