Day-bed
Category
Furniture
Date
1870 - 1929
Materials
Cotton, brass
Measurements
66 x 16.4 x 58.5 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318126
Summary
A daybed/ottoman, English, late 19th/ early 20th century, the buttoned headrest with overscrolled end, the rectangular padded seat hinged on one long side and lifting to reveal a well, the plain base on four brass castors, upholstered overall in blue and red floral cotton with gold trim and cord.
Provenance
Sunnycroft was built in 1880 for J.G. Wackrill, founder of the Shropshire Brewery. It was bought in the early 1890s by Mary Jane Slaney who proceeded to extend the house and lay out the grounds to create the estate that is there today. After Mary Slaney died in 1912 the property was bought by her brother-in-law John Vernon Thomas Lander. Three generations of the Lander family lived at Sunnycroft. J.V.T. Lander's granddaughter Joan bequeathed the estate to the National Trust in 1997.