Keats House

This white Regency villa in Hampstead was the home of the poet John Keats between 1818 and 1820, during the most productive period of his short life. It was in its garden, tradition says beneath a plum tree, that he wrote Ode to a Nightingale, and here that he fell in love with his neighbour Fanny Brawne. The house preserves manuscripts, letters and personal relics including an engagement ring. Keats left for Italy in search of a milder climate but died of tuberculosis in Rome aged just twenty-five.