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RESTORATION HOUSE
Rochester
Telephone: 01634 848520 Fax: 01634 880058
Website: www.restorationhouse.co.uk
Email:
robert.tucker@restorationhouse.co.uk
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Ancient city mansion, privately owned with
beautiful, rare interiors, including early paintwork 'run up' for visit of
Charles II on the eve of the restoration.The house also inspired Charles Dickens to create Miss Haversham in
Great Expectations.
Fine collection
of English furniture and paintings including portraits by Lely, Kneller,
Mytens, Highmore, Reynolds (3) and Gainsborough.
"Interiors of rare historical resonance and poetry"
- Country Life
Outside there are
charming interlinked walled gardens of ingenious design, including formal
hedges. parterre etc. combined with cutting garden, vegetable garden, well
built greenhouses, pot gardens, fruit trees, herbacious borders and divine
lawns.
"There is no
finer pre-Civil War Town House than this" -Simon Jenkins, The Times
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| OPENING TIMES |
Open Thursdays and Fridays only 31st May to 28th September, 10.00am -
5.00pm, plus Saturday 2nd June |
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