Down House was the home of the great Naturalist, Charles Darwin. He lived there with his family for 40 years,
during which time he wrote his revolutionary work ‘On the theory of evolution by natural selection’. The property
was built in the early 18th century but was extensively modernised through the 19th century.
The Down House chimneypiece is carved in Italian Carrara marble and reproduces a very popular form of
Regency chimneypiece, featuring bullseye corner blocks and convex fi elded frieze and jamb panels.
The Down House is shown with the Britton IV Arched register grate from Chesney’s collection of register grates.
The Down House