During the close season, the National Trust's Tudor Merchants House in Tenby has been having some conservation work done on the wall paintings in the front room of the house.
Peter Martindale, a wall paintings conservator, spent two weeks surveying the condition of the paintings, stabilising and cleaning sections of them, given the short time allowed.
While they were being cleaned, previously unseen borders were uncovered and it seems that a doorway had been blocked up and panels of the painting moved to cover up the gap from another wall in the room that was being demolished.
Also opinions now favour a date of late 18th or early 19th century for the paintings which are very unusual, especially in a property of this type, and as such need to have a lot more conservation work done on them at the earliest opportunity, hopefully next winter.
Obviously this is expensive and shows where entrance and membership fees are spent. In fact, if members of the public join the National Trust at the Tudor Merchants House, the first year's membership fee stays at the property and will help to pay for this essential conservation work to take place.
Photographs of the recent work are on show at the house which re-opens for the new season tomorrow (Saturday). Why not pay a visit and see the newly refurbished wall paintings in the house which has been part of Tenby's history since medieval times.