Bristol's Red Lodge Museum

The Red Lodge Museum in Bristol is an historic Elizabethan house that has been 'modernised' and restored several times throughout its 400 year history. It began life as a Tudor lodge and was subsequently added to in Georgian times. Situated behind the Colston Hall and next to Trenchard car park, off Lodge Street, the Red Lodge on Park Row has a modest red stone exterior, which belies the glorious interior.

The Great Oak Room is truly breath taking! As you step up the winding staircase and enter through the porch of the Great Oak Room, you will marvel at the magnificent oak panelling, the plasterwork ceiling and the magnificent carved stone chimneypiece - all of them original!

See how the Georgians modernised a Tudor building; the Reception Room, Print Room and staircase are all examples of Georgian architecture.

The garden is one of The Red Lodge's surprises. A south-facing, walled garden, it is an excellent example of a re-created Elizabethan-style knot garden with herbaceous borders. All the plants grown here could have been found in English gardens by 1630.