Tudor Trader House

Tudor Trader House is a 16th-century merchant dwelling that originally stood in Haverfordwest and now sits reconstructed at St Fagans National Museum. The building features a vaulted ground floor designed for storing goods and an upper residential level with a working fireplace.

The house was built in the 16th century near Quay Street in Haverfordwest as a typical merchant dwelling of the Tudor period. It was dismantled in 1983 and reconstructed at the museum in 2012, preserving its original structure.

The house reveals how merchants lived and worked together under one roof during Tudor times, with clear separation between trading space and family quarters. Walking through it shows how closely commerce and home life were intertwined for traders of that era.

The house is open to visitors as part of the museum and features period-appropriate furnishings throughout. Allow time to walk through both levels and examine how the spaces were organized for trade and daily living.

What makes this house unusual is that the same craftsmen who took it apart in 1983 reassembled it decades later. This direct transmission of hands-on knowledge between the dismantling and reconstruction made the project remarkably authentic to original building techniques.