Double bed
Category
Furniture
Date
1900 - 1929
Materials
Mahogany, metal, pine
Measurements
155 x 141.5 x 206.5 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318209
Summary
A mahogany double bed, English, early 20th century, the head and footboard with moulded top rails, the headboard with ten slender splats divided by a central vertical panel inlaid with stringing and a decorative oval, with a line-inlaid square-section upright to each side, terminating in brass castor, the footboard en suite, the mattress supported on a pine and metal frame.
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.