The Tudor House on Friar Street is a timber-framed merchant's house dating from around 1500, now operating as a local history museum. The building itself is the main attraction — a well-preserved example of late medieval urban domestic architecture, with close-studded timber framing, jetted upper floors, and original fireplaces still in place.
The museum inside covers the social history of Worcester from Tudor times to the 20th century, with particular attention to the lives of ordinary inhabitants rather than civic dignitaries. There are displays on the glove-making trade, the Civil War, and domestic life through the centuries. Entry is free and it makes a good complement to the grander Greyfriars a few doors away on the same street.