New rooms revealed - Can you help decide what we do with them?!

Six new rooms are being revealed and handed over to the public to help decide what to do with them in Treasurer’s House. Instead of answers on a postcard, we want visitors to chalk up their own ideas in each of the new rooms!

Tuesday 2^nd August sees the launch of the Blank Canvas, a suite of empty rooms. Up until recently these rooms were lived in by a tenant who sadly died in April. He had lived here for around 40 years.  This is an amazing opportunity for a house like this and we want the public to play a part in the decisions we make. Because the rooms are currently quite empty, they really are like a blank canvas so we‘re encouraging our visitors to explore and be creative!

Frank Green, the previous owner of Treasurer’s House, was renowned for his strict rules about how the house should be presented when he handed it over to the National Trust in 1930. He put studs in the floor to mark where every piece of furniture should stay, threatening to haunt the house if any of it was ever moved.

Although Frank Green was incredibly fastidious, he was also pioneering in offering access to his collection for the public and I think he would have loved to see people visiting this once hidden area.

Access to the new Blank Canvas is via the normal visitor route, normal admission prices apply. Open every day (11am - 4.30pm) except Fridays.

We will keep you posted each week to let you know what comments we have had from our visitors and eventually what ideas get used in the development to take us from a blank canvas to . . . ???!