Side rail
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oak, metal and canvas
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937972
Summary
Pair of oak side rails, each with a slit at one end and a wide, short piece of canvas tacked along almost the entire length of the rail, with rope holes along the long, loose edge and roughly finished at the sides. Each rail also has an additional fillet of wood screwed on with cut-out sections in which to accommodate bed slats.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).