The former home of Lakes poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey is on the market for £1.2 million.
Keswick’s Greta Hall, on Main Street, is a Grade I listed period country house and it is on sale for only the second time in 100 years.
Greta Hall was built in around and Southey, Poet Laureate from 1813 to 1843, lived there for 40 years. Literary greats including Charles Lamb and Sir Walter Scott visited the hall.
The property became a girls’ school between 1872 and 1887. In 1909, it was bought by Canon Rawnsley and rented out to Keswick School as a girls’ boarding house.
Bought by school governors in 1921, it remained a girls’ boarding house until 1994, when it became a private home.
Greta Hall was bought in 1998, and was restored to provide bed and breakfast and self-catering accommodation.
Set in two acres of garden and woodland, Greta Hall has views over the top of town to Catbells, Grisdale pike and Walla Crag – with views at the back are to Latrigg and Skiddaw.
The 10-bedroom hall features an entrance hall, two parlours, dining room, a dining kitchen and a breakfast kitchen, utility room, shower rooms, bathrooms, two studies and two cellars.
