AN historic house in the city has been awarded a grant for research to reveal its hidden past.

Tudor House Museum

, run by local charity Worcester Heritage and Amenity Trust, has been awarded a £61,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Tonia Collett, museum manager, said: “This is a really exciting project and we’re so pleased the National Lottery Heritage Fund have agreed to support it.

“Their grant will allow us to preserve a rare architectural feature in the city as well as create new opportunities for people to get involved with the museum and their heritage.”

Anne Jenkins, director, England: Midlands & East, The National Lottery Heritage Fund, said: “We are delighted that National Lottery support for the museum will let the embossed ceiling shine as the focal point of this historical building once again.

“Returned to their original condition, the ceiling’s prancing horses and Tudor roses will certainly be a marvellous sight to behold.”

The Revealing the Past project has been developed over the past 12 months, carrying out paint analysis and investigations into the ceiling structure alongside research into the development of the building and the people who lived here.

The project will involve working with historic building conservators to carry out restoration work to Worcester’s last remaining Tudor embossed ceiling in this Grade II Listed building. While this work is happening, the museum will be undergoing a complete refresh of displays, using new facts uncovered about the 16th Century broadcloth trade and the people who worked in it.

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The Worcester News reported in June on the £18,000 National Lottery grant awarded to the house for the creation of Tudor style furnishings.

It is a popular visitor attraction and its collection uncovers the lives of the people who lived there from 1520, and the changing city.

The house was restored in the early 1900s by Richard Cadbury.

Tudor House’s appearance today is the result of restoration work by Richard Cadbury in the early 1900s and in 1921 it was purchased by the Worcester Corporation and started it’s life as a public building as a school clinic.

Work on the project will begin in September.