The acclaimed letter-cutter Wayne Hart will be giving a demonstration of letter-cutting on slate and stone in the rear garden
Friarscot is a modest merchant’s house built for Robert Amfles in c.1510 during the first year of the reign of Henry VIII. It was subsequently ‘gentrified’ during the reign of James II with a late 17th-century brick facade of two storeys. Only the main ground floor rooms, which retain their original Tudor beams and other architectural details, will be open. For more than two hundred years, it was hidden from Church Street by an 18th-century house and did not come into view until that building was demolished in 1951.