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Keats House

The Hampstead house where Keats wrote the odes and fell in love with the girl next door, before Rome and the end.

Also in Literary London.

Wentworth Place was two new houses joined together, and in December 1818 John Keats, twenty-three and just out of his surgeon's training, took rooms in one half with his friend Charles Brown. The eighteen months that followed were nearly all of his work: Ode to a Nightingale, written in a morning under the plum tree in the garden in May 1819 by Brown's account, the other great odes, The Eve of St Agnes and Lamia. The Brawne family moved into the other half, and Keats fell in love with the daughter, Fanny, eighteen, and became secretly engaged to her; her garnet engagement ring is in the house. In February 1820 he coughed blood and knew what it meant, having nursed his brother through the same disease, and in September he sailed for Italy, where he died in Rome the following February, aged twenty-five. The City of London keeps the house with his books, letters and manuscripts, restored in 2009, and a plum tree stands where the first one did.

Where

10 Keats Grove, Belsize Park, NW3 2RR

Nearest station

Hampstead Heath · 2 min walk

Hours

Hours from the page that lists them, checked 5 September 2026.

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