Coleridge Cottage, Somerset
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A collection of Samuel Taylor Coleridge memorabilia - including copies of his works and personal letters, portraits and family belongings - at the poet's 18th century cottage.
This humble cottage was the home of Samuel Taylor Coleridge for three years from 1797. It was here that Coleridge wrote many of his greatest poems, including ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Kubla Khan’, and ‘Frost at Midnight’. The cottage was originally constructed in the 17th century as two buildings which were later combined and expanded. When Coleridge lived here, the cottage had a parlour, a kitchen and a service room on the ground floor, and three corresponding bedchambers above. The cottage was refurbished in 1800 and it was probably then that the present sash windows replaced the former casements. In the 19th century it was enlarged when it became Moore’s Coleridge Cottage Inn. In 1908 the cottage was acquired by a group of scholars and enthusiasts, and the following year it was given to the National Trust.
A collection of Samuel Taylor Coleridge memorabilia - including copies of his works and personal letters, portraits and family belongings - at the poet's 18th century cottage.