Tudor House Museum

Tudor House, an Elizabethan substantial, three-storey house, was built around 1600, estimated to be between 1603 and 1610 by a merchant who built it as a harbour-side house. Due to the closeness to the harbour, this allowed the trader to moor his boats right outside his home and unload his goods. The house is made of Portland stone ashlar, with a slate roof. During the 1950s, a local architect, Walmsley Lewis, the last of the Trustees and Secretary (1944–1977), acquired the property, undertook extensive restoration, and restored the building to a single dwelling, which he furnished in the style of an early 17th-century home of a middle-class family. In order to furnish it, he travelled all…