EASTGATE HOUSE

Eastgate House

Claimed to be a substantial Elizabethan home – but displaying distinctly early Tudor architecture on the south elevation on the High Street, the first known occupant was Sir Peter Buck and his family around 1591. The building has had may uses in the intervening years and, following a multi-million pound restoration recently, is now fully open to the public once more. One of it’s many claims to fame is that it is the ONLY building to be used by Charles Dickens in both his first novel and his last. In Pickwick Papers it is called Westgate House, and in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, it is The Nuns House – home to Miss Twinkelton’s School for Young Ladies.