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The old country house of Digory Kirke, where the Pevensie children are sent in 1940 and where the wardrobe is located.

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The Professor's House
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The Professor's House
The professor's large house, in the rain
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The house is located in the countryside, far from London, miles away from the train station and any post office. It is huge, full of corridors, staircases, and unexpected rooms : a library, a green room, an empty room containing only a large wardrobe.

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Visitors know it : it is such an old and famous house that the housekeeper, Mrs. Macready, organizes tours. The children must avoid the tourists, and it is while fleeing a group of them that all four enter the wardrobe.

According to The Last Battle, the house was sold after the Professor’s financial troubles. The old site had an article about it (no. 499).

The house of Professor Kirke is a vast country estate, ten miles from the nearest train station and two miles from the first post office. It is so famous that tourists come to visit it. It has countless rooms and an empty spare room where there is only a large wardrobe.

Le Lion, la Sorcière blanche et l'Armoire magique — Les quatre Pevensie y sont hébergés en 1940. Lucy découvre l’armoire, et le professeur défend sa logique face aux aînés incrédules.

La Dernière Bataille — Dans la vraie Narnia, les héros aperçoivent la « vraie » maison du professeur, celle qu’il avait dû vendre.

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Aussi présents :Mrs. Macready · Ivy, Margaret et Betty

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  • Lewis welcomed evacuee children from London into his home at The Kilns near Oxford in 1939.
  • Lewis noted that the house was so old it appeared in the guidebooks : the children hid in the wardrobe to avoid Mrs. Macready and her tourists.
  • The house has often been associated with Lewis’s childhood home, Little Lea, in Belfast, which was filled with rooms and books.

À l’écran

Film 2005 : The house is filmed in several English manors. BBC Series 1988 : a Victorian brick house.

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Professor's House

Located outside London, it was here that the children took refuge during the air raids and from where their adventures in Narnia began. This house belongs to Professor Digory Kirke, who became a prominent scholar. It is an old house filled with mysterious and distant objects. Incredible legends circulate about it, and guided tours are organized by Mrs. Macready. Later, it was sold because the professor had financial troubles.

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