Keats House
KEATS HOUSE, 10, KEATS GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1379221
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Keats House
- Statutory Address:
- KEATS HOUSE, 10, KEATS GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1379221
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Keats House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KEATS HOUSE, 10, KEATS GROVE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- KEATS HOUSE, 10, KEATS GROVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 27108 85666
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2785NW KEATS GROVE
798-1/28/952 (South side)
11/08/50 No.10
Keats House
GV I
Semi-detached pair, designed to appear as one house, known
when built as Wentworth Place; now converted to one house
being a house museum. c1815-16. Built for antiquary & critic
Charles Wentworth Dilke and writer Charles Armitage Brown;
altered c1839 and late C20. Stucco with plain 1st floor band.
Slated hipped roof having projecting eaves and tall
chimney-stacks on both returns.
2 storeys and basement. Double fronted with 3 windows plus 1
storey 2 window extension at east end added c1839-40. Ground
floor openings in shallow, round-arched recesses. Round-arched
doorway with splayed reveals, fanlight and panelled door
approached by steps with cast-iron railings. Ground floor
square-headed casements with cast-iron balconies. 1st floor
and extension, recessed sashes. Rear ground floor has
continuous cast-iron verandah.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: from 1818-20 the poet John Keats stayed with
Brown in the eastern part of the house (plaque); in 1819 Keats
composed "Ode to a Nightingale" here, and Dilke let the
western house to the family of Fanny Brawne, to whom Keats
became engaged. The houses were combined into one by Eliza
Chester, retired actress, in 1838-9. Now the Keats museum.
Listing NGR: TQ2710885666
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478589
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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