Keats House
Museum · Hampstead, England
Keats House is at 10 Keats Grove and is run by the City of London Corporation. It is ticketed. No source states its opening hours, so none are given here. Volunteer-led tours of the ground floor run most Thursday, Friday and Sunday afternoons from about 2.15pm, last about 30 minutes and carry no extra charge. The house is Grade I listed, NHLE 1379221, and was listed on 11 August 1950.
History
It was built in about 1815–16 as a semi-detached pair designed to look like one house, then known as Wentworth Place, and was later converted into a single house museum (NHLE 1379221). It was built for the antiquary and critic Charles Wentworth Dilke and the writer Charles Armitage Brown, and altered about 1839 and again in the late twentieth century. It is stuccoed, with a slated hipped roof, projecting eaves and tall chimney-stacks on both returns; two storeys and a basement, double-fronted with three windows, plus a single-storey two-window extension at the east end added about 1839–40. The neighbouring Keats Community Library is Grade II listed, NHLE 1430883, and Nos 1, 2, 3, 4 and 12 Keats Grove are each Grade II listed in their own right. Hampstead Heath is in Camden at this point.
Visit
10 Keats Grove, London NW3 2RR
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