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5 unusual facts about Down House


Cold Ash

Downe House School, a girls' boarding school, moved to Cold Ash in 1922 when it outgrew its original premises, Downe House, Charles Darwin's former home near Bromley in Kent.

Down House

In 1837 Johnson emigrated to "Lake Erie near Dunville in Upper Canada", and passed what was now called Down House on to the incumbent parson of the parish, the Rev. James Drummond.

Downe House

Down House, Charles Darwin's home in the village of Downe in the English Borough of Bromley

Fedor Bondarchuk

In 2001 Fedor played the role of Count Myshkin in Down House, loosely based on Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot.

Hedley Atkins

In 1953 he and his wife moved into Down House in Downe, Kent in 1962 to be honorary curator of the Charles Darwin museum there.


Gerard Corley Smith

The first council meeting he attended was in England, at Down House, Darwin's former home, where members saw in the tall, silver-haired and distinguished-looking former diplomat a remarkable likeness to the portrait there of T. H. Huxley.


see also

Chimera House

The movie "House of 1000 Corpses" by singer/film maker Rob Zombie bears a slight resemblance to the Chimera House legend, where a group of teens encounter the bizarre and freakish in a run-down house.

Denis Jenkinson

He spent his summers touring Europe and his winters in a succession of 'digs' in England; Jenks eventually settled near Crondall in Hampshire in a tiny run-down house with no mains electricity or water, largely full of his archives and of parts of vehicles he was 'fettling'.

Philip Vanbrugh

Philip Vanbrugh married Mary Griffith in Arnold, Nottinghamshire on 24 July 1715 and they had one known child, Philippia, born 1716, la belle consulesse, who married Burrington Goldsworthy of Down House, Dorset, British consul at Leghorn, Italy and later at Cadiz.