A team of history experts is preparing to spend five days living exactly as a Sussex farming family would have done 400 years ago.

Their home will be Pendean farmhouse, which is one of the exhibits at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum near Chichester.

Members of a rural history re-enactment society will dress, behave, talk and eat just as families did in 1565, when the house was built.

The aim of the event, from August 24 to August 29, is to bring one of the main exhibits to life.

A spokesman said: "People will be able to discover the daily highs and lows of rural life in Sussex 400 years ago."

The museum at Singleton features dozens of historic buildings which were once threatened with demolition to make way for housing and road schemes.

They were taken down by experts and reassembled in the museum's 50 acres of parkland.