Editing Edward Heath (section)

===Private residence===
[[File:Edward Heath Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|upright|Heath in his Salisbury home, 1987]]
[[File:Sir Edward Heath - Arundells 59 Cathedral Close Salisbury SP1 2EN.jpg|thumb|Blue plaque located on the boundary wall of Arundells]]
In the 1960s, Heath had lived in [[Albany (London)|Albany]], off Piccadilly; at the unexpected end of his premiership, the French couple living there refused his demand that they move out so that he could have his flat back ("So much for European Unity!" Heath later wrote in his memoirs). For four months, Heath took the flat of Conservative MP [[Timothy Kitson]]; Kitson declined his offer to pay rent but later recalled an occasion when his own watch broke, and Heath in response invited him to take one of a large collection that he had been given on his travels. In July 1974, [[Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster|the Duke of Westminster]], a major London landowner and ardent Europhile, allowed Heath to rent a property in Wilton Street, Belgravia, for an annual rent of £1,250 (£{{formatprice|{{Inflation|UK|1250|1974}}}} at {{CURRENTYEAR}} prices),{{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}} a tenth of the market value. The house had three storeys and a basement flat for Heath's housekeeper, and he continued to use it as his London home until old age prevented him from climbing the stairs.<ref>Ziegler 2010, pp. 443–444.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/result.php |title=Five Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a U.K. Pound Amount |publisher=measuringworth.com |access-date=27 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331194822/https://measuringworth.com/ukcompare/result.php |archive-date=31 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In February 1985, Heath acquired a Wiltshire home, [[Arundells]], in the [[Cathedral close]] at [[Salisbury]], where he resided until his death twenty years later. In January 2006, it was announced that Heath had placed his house and contents, valued at £5&nbsp;million in his will, in a charitable foundation, the Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation, to conserve the house as a museum to his career.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arundells.org/the-foundation/ |title=The Foundation |publisher=Arundells |access-date=4 September 2016}}</ref> The house is open to the public for guided tours from March to October; displayed therein is a large collection of personal effects as well as Heath's personal library, photo collections, and paintings by Winston Churchill.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arundells.org/ |title=Homepage |website=Arundells |access-date=23 April 2021}}</ref>

In his will, Heath, who had no descendants, left only two legacies: £20,000 to his brother's widow, and £2,500 to his housekeeper.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4632094.stm |title=Former PM Heath left £5m in will |work=BBC News |date=20 January 2006 |access-date=20 April 2010}}</ref>