Sunnycroft

**Sunnycroft**
	Sunnycroft
Wellington; Shropshire
National Trust
; Sunnycroft from the lawn
Grid reference:	SJ65091101
Location:	52°41’43"N, 2°31’0"W
	Information

Sunnycroft is a Victorian suburban villa, in Wellington in Shropshire.

Today the house is owned by the National Trust; one of their more unusual properties.

Suburban villas were almost 'country estates in miniature' that attempted to emulate upper class mansions on a middle class budget. Many have either been modernised, renovated or refurbished out of recognition over the last 60 years or so or have been demolished and replaced with later housing, converted into offices or residential care homes, or have been broken up into flats and smaller residences.

The house today

Sunnycroft remains intact, complete with the original interior fixtures and fittings, many of which are still in place and therefore has a unique character and intimacy that is often lacking from larger properties but very evocative of its time and place.

It stands close to the town centre in Wellington, on the B5061 Holyhead Road, originally the Shrewsbury to London road, and formerly part of Watling Street the Roman road from London to Wroxeter.

Sunnycroft was built in 1880, and extended in 1899. Uniquely the house remained in the same family from its completion in 1899, until it was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1997.

The National Trust summarises Sunnycroft as:

A late 19th-century gentleman's villa – typical creation of Victorian era suburbia
Rare unaltered interior, with an elaborate sunroom|conservatory
A mini country-estate, with pigsties, stables, kitchen garden and orchards
Colourful borders and summertime flower displays
Superb long avenue of Redwood trees and lime trees

Pictures

Veranda at the front of Sunnycroft
The Grade II listed conservatory at Sunnycroft
Conservatory Interior
The visitor entrance to Sunnycroft
Main staircase
Drawing Room
Mosaic tiled floor to entrance hallway
Stained glass ceiling light over main staircase
Master bedroom
Cooking range in the kitchen
The Aga was manufactured by a company owned by a previous owner of the villa, Offley Lander