A five-story house next door to the home Charles Dickens rented in London’s Bloomsbury neighborhood has hit the market for £4.5 million (US$6.05 million).
The property was occupied by Dickens, his wife and their eldest son from 1837 to 1839, and it is where he wrote “Oliver Twist” and “Nicholas Nickleby,” according to the listing with Dexters, which brought the home to the market earlier this week.
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His time at the home, for which he paid £80 a year, is marked by a blue plaque on the facade of the property—which now serves as the Charles Dickens Museum. The museum, according to its website, is set up as it would have been during Dickens’s tenure, complete with furnishings, portraits and decorations that belonged to the author.
The 3,500-square-foot house on the market “sits at the heart of London’s history, next door to the home of one of Britain’s greatest authors,” Michael Keating, sales director at Dexters Bloomsbury, said in a statement.
It has nine bedrooms, a patio garden and offers flexible accommodation, according to the listing.
The house last changed hands for £4.1 million in 2014, listing records show. Mansion Global couldn’t determine the owner.
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Bloomsbury is home to a number of cultural, intellectual and educational institutions, including the British Museum and University College London. But it’s perhaps more famously London’s literary hub.
The neighborhood is home to Bloomsbury Publishing, publishers of the Harry Potter series. It was also the home of the Bloomsbury Group, a group of British intellectuals that included author Virginia Woolf, painter Vanessa Bell, and writer and critic Lytton Strachey.
“Set moments from Bloomsbury’s garden squares, independent cafés and excellent transport links, [the house] offers a rare blend of daily convenience and a remarkable story,” Keating said.