Greta House
GRETA HOUSE, MAIN STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1144699
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- Statutory Address:
- GRETA HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-02-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/05159/06
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1144699
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-May-1977
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRETA HOUSE, MAIN STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GRETA HOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Keswick
- National Park:
- Lake District
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 26522 23789
Details
KESWICK MAIN STREET 1. 5161 (East Side) ----------- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 71788
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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