Satis House Estella Havisham, Miss Havisham's adopted daughter, discusses the name with Pip, the protagonist: Pip's description notes the iron bars in the windows of the house, including some detail on a boarded-up window. There is also a large brewery on the side of the house connected to the house by lanes and an open wooden gate. Satis house is now currently owned by King's School, Rochester as their admin offices Satis House Satis House is a fictional estate in the Charles Dickens novel "Great Expectations. The name "Satis House" comes from the Latin "" for 'enough', and is the name of
Mary Dickens to have embarrassed or angered her family, who largely cut themselves off from her. Much of her life after her father's death in 1870 remains unknown, but after leaving her aunt's she lived for a period with a clergyman and his wife, Mr and Mrs Hargreaves, in Manchester, a "scandal" which was kept a secret by her family. Later she lived alone in the country. Mary Dickens went on to write "My Father as I Recall Him" (1886), and a novel, "Cross Currents" (1890). On Mary's death her aunt, Georgina Hogarth, wrote to Connie Dickens, the widow of Edward Dickens: