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Bleak House, Broadstairs

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Bleak House on Fort Road (geograph 3259995)
Bleak House on Fort Road (geograph 3259995)

Bleak House (originally known as Fort House) is a prominent house on the cliff overlooking the North Foreland and Viking Bay in Broadstairs, Kent. It was built around 1801 and then substantially extended, doubling in size, in 1901. The house was the site of the North Cliff Battery and was used as a coastal station for observing maritime activity.Charles Dickens holidayed at Fort House in the 1850s and 1860s, and wrote David Copperfield during his time there. He is also said to have penned out Bleak House whilst in residence, hence the change of name in the early 1900s. The house is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England.

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Bleak House, Broadstairs
Fort Road, Thanet Upton

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CT10 1EY Thanet, Upton
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