Greta Hall

Greta Hall is a residence in Keswick within the Lake District of England. It is pleasant known as the home of the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. The residence is overdue C18. Front three storeys, with quoins and plinth, centre flush-panelled double doors, Ionic doorcase with fluted three/four columns, frieze, cornice and dentilled pediment. Three sash home windows on each ground, all 12-paned, in stone architraves. Large segmental 2-storeyed bow on right hand go back facet, in any other case three storeys with a Venetian window. Left hand return aspect has a comparable Venetian window and a half-bow. Interior has true carved O.K. Fire dated 1684 in "Southey's parlour", flag floors and old ovens in kitchens, and most important windows with fluted indoors timber cases, simple wooden staircase.

Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived there with his family from 24 July 1800 till 1803 and regularly visited William Wordsworth in Grasmere. Robert Southey and his wife got here to stay with Coleridge at Greta Hall in 1803 and lived there until his death in 1843. Coleridge left Greta Hall in 1804 leaving his own family within the care of Southey. Greta Hall was visited by means of a number of the Lake Poets and other literary figures which includes William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, William Hazlitt, Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, Sir George Beaumont, Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb 1802, Thomas De Quincey and John Ruskin. Sara Coleridge was born at Greta Hall.