Jane Austen's House
Jane Austen's House, Chawton
The country cottage where Austen spent her final eight years revising and writing Pride and Prejudice and Emma; her writing desk and original manuscripts remain.
This 17th-century red-brick cottage stands in the village of Chawton. Jane Austen lived here from 1809 to 1817, revising and publishing Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, and completing Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion. The house preserves her small twelve-sided wooden writing table, jewelry, letters, and first editions, and the garden is filled with cottage flowers. Admission is about 15 GBP, and booking a time slot is recommended. Nearby, Chawton House, once the estate of her brother Edward, now serves as a library for early women writers and can be visited alongside. The cottage is about 27 km from Winchester, roughly a 30-minute drive. She died in Winchester in 1817 at 8 College Street.
Opening hours
About 10:00–17:00 (shorter hours in winter)
Nearby sights
- Chawton House
- Queen Elizabeth Country Park
- New Alresford
- Watercress Line (Mid Hants Railway)
- Hinton Ampner
- Winchester Science Centre & Planetarium
- Fort Nelson (Royal Armouries)
- Marwell Zoo