The Breach House

The Breach House is now open for viewing by appointment. Please get in touch if you would like a tour around this special house - DH Lawrence's childhood home and the setting for the early part of Sons and Lovers.

The Breach House is now closed for the winter. We look forward to welcoming visitors again in the Spring.

Here is just one of many lovely comments received from satisfied visitors to The Breach House. If you would like to look around, please get in touch.

This year we decided to devote the Festival almost exclusively to Lawrence and to four people in his life who have engendered, for different reasons, controversy and speculation. How did figures to be found in almost any man's life, his mother, his father, his first girlfriend, his wife, become s...

Plum Tree
(From ‘The White Peacock’)

After a while we went out also, before the light faded altogether from the pond. Emily took us into the lower garden, to get some ripe plums. The old garden was very low. The soil was black. The cornbind and goosegrass were clutching at the ancient gooseberr...

Ken Roberts (March 3rd, 1926 - May 28th, 2021)
Ken Roberts… was larger than life, and if I had to liken him to a flower (which I am wont to do with people sometimes) he would surely, in his flowering, be a sunflower – tall, leggy, long-lived, a symbol of both loyalty and hospitality, and er, sunn...

‘Then came news that the home of the ‘Morels’, so vividly described in ‘Sons and Lovers’, was on the market. The house in Garden Road, formerly No 57 The Breach, Eastwood…looked a daunting prospect. It was derelict, slightly fire-damaged and the long garden a wilderness….Happily, house and garden...

Open by appointment after 17th May 2021

Although we won't be holding any open days this year, we will be very happy to show visitors round The Breach House after the 17th May, if government restrictions ease as planned. Please get in touch to arrange a guided tour.