Eastgate House

Eastgate House is a Grade I recorded Elizabethan townhouse in Rochester, Kent, England. It is remarkable for its relationship with creator Charles Dickens, including as Westgate in The Pickwick Papers and as the Nun's House in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Presently a Dickens Museum, the grounds of Eastgate House contain the Swiss chalet in which Dickens penned a few of his novels.It was worked in the 1590s for Sir Peter Buck, Mayor of Medway and Clerk of the Check at Chatham Dockyard.

The house at that point wound up home to five ages of his family. In 1687, the Parker family occupied the house and after that in the 1750s, the Bartholemew family possessed the house until the mid-eighteenth century. In 1761, it was claimed by Annabel Darwin. At that point in 1791, it was involved by James Reed. It is vague who first set up a school on the site James or his dowager.