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Dickens Chalet

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• Address: Eastgate
• Vicinity: Rear Of Eastgate House
• Neighborhood of Rochester Town Centre in Rochester, Kent

• Travel Genus: Sight
• Sight Category: Building

• As Noted In: English National Heritage Listed I, Historic England

Dickens Chalet is a wooden chalet, 19th century timber framed building of Swiss type, two storeys; overhanging roof with decorative bargeboarding supported by shaped brackets. Windows to 1st floor only with external shutters, with balcony to E, shaped splat balusters, decorative pendant frieze, shaped brackets. Paneled double door with shuttered side openings, the upper panel pierced. Given to Charles Dickens by Charles Fetcher, the actor, and erected in the grounds of Godshill in 1865. Dickens did much of his writing in it between 1865 and his death in 1870. Before its final re-erection behind Eastgate House, it stood at the Crystal Palace and Cobham Hall. Graded for its association with Charles Dickens. - English Heritage