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Category
Furniture
Date
1900 - 1950
Materials
Wood
Measurements
84 x 48 x 17.5 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318243
Summary
A stained wood bookshelf, English, first half 20th century, with four square-section corner supports, the rear two being taller than the front, each terminating with a turned finial, the rear two supports joined by two horizontal bars near the top, the horizontal top shelf above a trough shelf, the bottom shelf with a shaped apron, each side with a thin vertical bar traversing through the shelves and through a top horizontal bar joining the front to the back supports.
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.