Open to visitorsan English Heritage site — check opening times and admission before you go
Lyddington Bede House began as a wing of the Bishops of Lincoln’s palace, and in 1600 Sir Thomas Cecil turned it into an almshouse, the Jesus Hospital, for twelve poor bedesmen and two women. It stayed in use as almshouses until 1930. English Heritage now runs it: you can see the bedesmen’s small rooms with their tiny windows and fireplaces, and upstairs the bishops’ great chamber with its carved Tudor cornice. Paid admission, open seasonally. It sits at the end of the long honey-stone street in Lyddington.
