Greta Hall

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 poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived at Greta Hall with his family from 24 July 1800 until 1803 and regularly visited William Wordsworth in Grasmere.

[5] Greta Hall was visited by a number of the Lake Poets and other literary figures including 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.

Entering Crosthwaite Church, he inspected the monument to the poet, reading the inscription on it by Wordsworth, and after visiting the Laureate's grave in the churchyard, went over to Greta Hall.

In 1909 it was bought by Canon Rawnsley and rented to the headmaster of Keswick School as a girls’ boarding house.