Keats House

Romantic poet John Keats’s Hampstead home and garden, with rooms, manuscripts and programmes that bring his short, prolific life into focus.

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Opening Hours

Sunday: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Sunday: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Wednesday: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Wednesday: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Thursday: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Thursday: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Friday: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Friday: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Personal objects and interpretive displays situate Keats’s writing within his daily life.

A small room, a vast imagination—trace drafts to finished odes.

Pick one object (sofa, bed, notebook facsimile) and connect it to a line you know.

📍 First-floor bedroom & adjoining spaces

The setting that inspired key poems; quiet space to reflect and read.

Listen for birds—then read ‘Nightingale’ aloud in a whisper.

Find a bench, set a 5-minute timer, and free-write your own opening stanza.

📍 Rear garden and paths

Short tours and recitals add voices and context you won’t get from labels.

Hearing a sonnet performed where it was revised changes its weight.

Ask the guide which line readings are debated—and why.

📍 Check welcome desk on arrival

Keats developed some of his most famous odes while living here in Hampstead.
The site presents both sides of the former divided house, echoing how Keats and friends actually lived here.
Concerts and poetry events regularly activate the historic rooms.