Time For Bed.

      One of the most prominent, centuries-old houses of South Lakeland is Sizergh Castle, longtime home of the Strickland family, from the 13th Century until 1950.
      The house, now in the hands of the National Trust, is to sell off an old and interesting oak bedstead. This remarkable piece of furniture, was commissioned in 1570 by Alice Strickland, the wife of Sir Walter Strickland, during extensive lavish refurbishment and renovation, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1.

        The bedstead, said to be one of the most important pieces of Elizabethan Oak furniture, still remaining in private hands and considered to be in the top ten, of English oak beds of the Elizabethan period and British Furniture design.
      The piece will be sold by Bonhams, in London at Bonhams Oak Interiors Sale, on 28th September and is expected to raise around £150k.

      We await the final hammer price.