Single bed
Category
Furniture
Date
1900 - 1929
Materials
Oak, steel
Measurements
136 x 197.5 x 95 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318301
Summary
An oak single bed, English, early 20th century, the head rest with moulded cornice on plain top rail supported by variously sized uprights, the lower footboard of matching form, the square-section legs with brass castors, the mattress supported by a metal frame with wire mesh lining and lower wire lattice lining.
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.