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RESTORATION HOUSE, Rochester Telephone: 01634 848520 Website: www.restorationhouse.co.uk Multimap location finder 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 Opening Times: See website for details Back