The official address of Greta Hall is Main Street, Keswick, but it is located some 150 metres to the north east of the road on higher ground.[1] The house is described by Historic England:
The house is late C18. Front 3 storeys, with quoins and plinth, centre flush-panelled double doors (Gothic top panels glazed with net tracery), Ionic doorcase with fluted 3/4 columns, frieze, cornice and dentilled pediment. 3 sash windows on each floor (2 to left and 1 to right on ground floor, other storeys symmetrical), all 12-paned, in stone architraves. Large segmental 2-storeyed bow on right hand return side, otherwise 3 storeys with a Venetian window. Left hand return side has a similar Venetian window and a half-bow. Interior has good carved oak fireplace dated 1684 in "Southey's parlour", flag floors and old ovens in kitchens, and main windows with fluted interior wood cases. Simple wood staircase.[2]
Notable tenants and visitorsedit
Greta Hall in 1843
The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived at Greta Hall with his family from 24 July 1800 until 1803 and regularly visited William Wordsworth in Grasmere.[3] Coleridge's daughter Sara was born at Greta Hall in 1802.[4]Robert Southey and his wife came to stay with the Coleridges in 1803, and took over the tenancy of Greta Hall when Coleridge left in 1804. Southey lived there until his death in 1843.[5]
Between 1872 and 1887 it was a girls’ school. In 1909 it was bought by Canon Rawnsley and rented to the headmaster of Keswick School as a girls’ boarding house.[6] In 1921 it was bought by the governors of the school and remained a girls’ boarding house until 1994.
^Mudge, Bradford K. "Coleridge, Sara (1802–1852), writer and literary editor", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2007. Retrieved 27 January 2020 (subscription or UK public library membership required)
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