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Uncle Pumblechook's House

April 2011

Uncle Pumblechook's House, in Great Expectations, was located in this building. In the novel Pip says that "Uncle Pumblechook's premises, in the High-Street of the market town were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character as the premises of a corn chandler and seedsman should be."

Dickens also used the building as the home of Mr. Sapsea in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

The building dates from around 1684.