Housekeeper's cupboard
Category
Furniture
Date
1870 - 1929
Materials
Pine, oak, paint
Measurements
237 x 183 x 58 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Collection
Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318281
Summary
A cream- and brown-painted housekeeper's cupboard, British, late 19th/ early 20th century, the moulded cornice above two pairs of paneled cupboard doors separated by a single paneled door, above two columns of four oak-lined drawers separated by a single paneled door, the interiors of the upper cupboards painted cream (chipping to show earlier blue/green paint underneath) and each cupboard with two fixed shelves, the lower section drawers lined with blue paper, each drawer with two knob handles, the central cupboard painted cream to the interior and with a single fixed shelf. The upper section painted cream and lower section painted brown to match the surrounding walls in Spring 1997.
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.