Description

KESWICK MAIN STREET
1.
5161 (East Side)
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Greta House
(formerly, listed as
Greta Hall)
NY 2623 1/34 2.10.51.
I

2.
Now part of Keswick Grammar School. Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived here 1800-1803.
Robert Southey lived here 1803-43. 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.

Listing NGR: NY2652223789

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Greta Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15978999

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)