Tudor House and Garden

◄ Photo by: Mark Ball

Newly restored and with great new displays and facilities, Tudor House and Garden is again open to welcome visitors. You can enjoy the newly accessible House, the lovely Garden and the delightful setting of the Old Town.

Free entry to our cafe, where you can enjoy a delicious range of refreshments from fresh coffee and cakes, to traditional English afternoon tea. Whenever we can, we source our food locally using the finest ingredients. The café is open from 11am – 4.45pm weekdays and 10am – 4.45pm weekends (last orders 4.30pm).

Tickets: Children under 5 - Free (free admission to carers accompanying a paying disabled person)
Ages 5-16yrs £3.00 | Over 60s £3.75 | Adults £4.75 | family 2 adults + 3 children £12.00

Open: Daily (Monday to Sunday, including Bank Holidays) 10am - 5pm.

Spa Town:
Southampton in the 1700s

Showcasing objects from the City’s museum and archive collections, this exhibition gives visitors a rare chance to catch a glimpse of the Southampton where Jane Austen lived for several years. Exploring a time when the High Street was described as “one of the finest in England” many of the objects on display relate to domestic life and entertainment including a finely embroidered waistcoat, a sewing sampler and pictures showing Southampton in the 1700s.

Find out more at the Tudor House and Garden website

So what can visitors enjoy at the new Tudor House museum?

1. So what can visitors enjoy?

- an exciting introductory audio-visual show, introducing characters who guide you round the House through the free audio guides
- a mini-beasts tour of the Garden
- newly developed ‘Guidarota’ displays so you can explore key rooms in more detail
- a children’s trail in the house
- ‘lenticular’ panels showing rooms in different historical periods
- platform lifts to the first floor
- and of course the café overlooking the Garden

The House dates back to the 1400s, and celebrates its centenary as a museum in 2012. It has a fascinating history, lived in by the rich, the famous and the poor, from the Tudor Lord Chief Justice Sir Richard Lyster to the Victorian milliner Eliza Simmons. Find out more about these characters’ stories as you explore the House. The newly presented displays include recently restored items never on show to the public, as well as much loved favourites. See important sixteenth century wall drawings in plaster, discovered during the restoration. Explore publically inaccessible areas, now brought to life by the ground floor video guide.