Single bed
Category
Furniture
Date
1920 - 1950
Materials
Oak
Measurements
137 x 203.5 x 94.5 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318257
Summary
An oak single bed, English, circa 1920-50, the headboard with moulded top rail above the backrest with rectangular panel with carved rosettes to the corners, the lower footboard decorated ensuite, on square-section legs with plastic castors, the mattress supported on a metal and wood frame lined with springs.
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.