Dickens Chalet to Rear of Eastgate House is a Grade I listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1950. A C19 Chalet.
Dickens Chalet to Rear of Eastgate House
- WRENN ID
- woven-remnant-equinox
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- Chalet
- Address
- Dickens Chalet to Rear of Eastgate House, High Street, ME1 1EW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 744 683
- Coordinates
- 51.38733, 0.50622
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dickens Chalet, located to the rear of Eastgate House, is a Grade I listed wooden chalet from the 19th century, designed in a Swiss style. The building is two storeys high and features an overhanging roof with decorative bargeboarding supported by shaped brackets. The first floor has windows with external shutters and a balcony to the east, which includes shaped splat balusters and a decorative pendant frieze. The entrance consists of a panelled double door with shuttered side openings, and the upper panel is pierced.
This chalet was given to Charles Dickens by the actor Charles Fetcher and was erected in the grounds of Godshill in 1865. Dickens used it as a writing retreat from 1865 until his death in 1870. Before being moved to its current location behind Eastgate House, it was previously situated at the Crystal Palace and Cobham Hall. The chalet is listed for its significant association with Charles Dickens.
Local climate
Dickens Chalet to Rear of Eastgate House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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