The stone-vaulted undercroft at Priory House is to be restored, Historic England says.
More than £1.2m of work is due to begin on a house with a "rare and almost complete" 13th Century cellar.The project will support further repair work necessary to conserve the medieval vaults and see the tearooms back in use at full capacity.
Priory House - pictured before the start of restoration work - is on Historic England's At Risk Register Trudi Hughes, from Historic England, said: "We now understand all of the issues which have been causing concern over many years - including occasional falls of stone internally, periodic flooding, structural discontinuities in the building fabric, and an increasing inability for the building's drainage to deal with increased rainfall.
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