John Keats lodged in one of them with his friend Charles Brown from December 1818 to May 1820, and then in the other half of the house with the Brawne family from August to September 1820.

Brown transferred his part of Wentworth Place to Dilke's father on 18 June 1822 and left for Italy in the same year.

There were several notable occupants of the house during the 19th century: the painter and illustrator Henry Courtney Selous (1835–1838); Eliza Chester (1838–1848), a retired actress, once a favourite of George IV, who converted the house into one dwelling and added a dining room and conservatory;[4] the piano manufacturer Charles Cadby (1858–1865); the physiologist Dr William Sharpey (1867–1875); and finally Reverend George Currey, Master of Charterhouse (1876).

The museum runs regular poetry and literary events, and offers a range of educational facilities.

In December 2006 it was announced that the house was to benefit from a restoration[8] programme partly financed by a £424,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant.

[9] Keats House was closed on 1 November 2007 and reopened on Friday, 24 July 2009, some six months after the projected re-opening.

[2] To support the work of the house and to contribute to its upkeep, the Keats Foundation was established as a Trust in November 2010.

Keats did mention a white mulberry tree once in a July 1818 letter to his friend John Hamilton Reynolds.

From central London, red bus route 24 terminates at South End Green, Hampstead, close to the house and marked as 275 at the bottom right of the area map.