Ice box
Category
Furniture
Date
1870 - 1929
Materials
Pine, steel, paint
Measurements
56 x 43 x 47.5 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Collection
Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318287
Summary
A black-painted pine icebox, British, late 19th/ early 20th century, the box and lid formed of planks bound together with black-painted steel brackets, the interior with steel liner, the base with later rollerball feet.
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.