'The family owned and run property is now being sold reluctantly and has recently been reduced to £2.5million for a quick sale. 'More recently the property has been used as a five star B&B and licensed wedding venue. 'Predating Dickens the property was a Naval Captain's house and now also features a unique smuggling museum located within the basement. 'The property comes with a Dickens Study museum room which features Dickens' writing desk from where he wrote David Copperfield whilst looking out across the English Channel. 'Charles Dickens spent many summers at 'Fort House', as it was then known, where he used to take long walks along the cliff top and reportedly enjoyed long lunches. James Painter, from the estate agents, said: 'This truly is a rare opportunity to buy into a piece of Dickens' history. The property is on the market with Terence Painter estate agents. There is also staff quarters, garages and store rooms, as well as private gardens. A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the. The property has an entrance lobby, a grand reception hall, dining/music room, lounge and bar, kitchen/dining room, another reception room, office, master bedroom with dressing room, en suite bathroom and a balcony and six further bedrooms. Free Public Domain E-Books from the Classic Literature Library. The Charles Dickens study has also been retained and contains the writing desk he sat at by the window and other Dickens-related items. English novelist Charles Dickens, who lived from 1812 to 1870
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