 During Coleridge's time at the house William Wordsworth visited him and subsequently rented Alfoxton Park, a little over away.There are references to the cottage in several of Coleridge's poems, including "To The Rev G Coleridge" (lines 52–61), "This Lime Tree Bower My Prison"; "Frost at Midnight"; and "Fears in Solitude" (lines 221–226).The cottage was refurbished in 1800 and run as an inn.