Clothes boiler
Category
Metalwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Copper, Stone, Wood
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Berrington Hall, Herefordshire
NT 617952
Summary
Clothes boiler - A copper for boiling clothes. A metal basin set in stone fed by a tap and covered with a slatted wooden lid. Heated by an oven, the heat of which incidentally dryed the clothes on the drying racks alongside.