Biography | Charles Dickens — The Dining Room at Gad's Hill Place Where He Died
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Biography | Charles Dickens — The Dining Room at Gad's Hill Place Where He Died
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Dickens bought Gad's Hill Place on 14 March 1856 for £1,790.
It was the red-brick house on the Gravesend Road at Higham that he had wanted since boyhood in nearby Chatham.
The sitting tenant stayed until March 1857.
The family moved in that June.
He wrote here in a study fitted with dummy book spines of his own invention, and in a Swiss chalet across the road, reached by a tunnel under the highway.
The chalet now stands at Eastgate House in Rochester.
On 9 June 1870 he died of a stroke on a couch in the dining room.
The house is Grade I listed.
It is used as a school.
The facade still faces the road he once walked as a child.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, public domain
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