A comfortable home telling the story of a brewer, a widow and three generations of the Lander family

Tucked away on the edge of Wellington is this rare suburban villa and mini-estate. As you walk up the large avenue of Wellingtonia trees the red-brick villa is unexpectedly revealed offering a chance to immerse yourself in a past era.

The time capsule, which is furnished with original wallpapers, Maw’s tiles and gold medal winning fireplaces, transports you back to the pre-First World War ‘country house’ lifestyle. Packed full with everyday items belonging to the families who lived here, you are sure to feel the familiarity and comfort of this home despite all the features of a grander house, such as the Billiard Room, Drawing Room and impressive Staircase Hall.

The 5 acres of garden is complete with glass houses, conservatory, kennels, pigsties and stables and is perfect for a wander or a game of croquet. You are welcome to take refreshments in our Edwardian tea-room or out on the veranda.

Robert A. Heinlein

In the last photo the cat and I are almost paw to toe before he rubbed around my legs and moved on.

During my recent visit to Sunnycroft, a cat took me by surprise when it peered out from behind a tree and looked at me.   After a while the cat walked towards me, rubbed his body around my legs as cats are wont to do, then moved on to make his own unexpected discoveries in the undergrowth.

Friday and the time of the visitors arrival finally arrived but there was no sign of the visitors…  The evening had a tight time schedule involving a Chinese takeaway and a visit to see my parents early in the evening, before my Dad got too tired (because of his chemo treatment).  After a phone call it was established that the guests were sitting in a local pub!!!  And they were hastily rounded up.

Following that saga my early Saturday hair appointment was quite welcome, I find having my hair done quite relaxing.  I was having light perm which means sitting around for a while for the treatments to set.  I had to smile when my stylist gave me some magazines to read to stop me getting bored.  The rack is full of those tacky, gossipy,  tasteless magazines (which I would never read) but she rifled through the rack and brought me the Shropshire Magazine, Shropshire Woman and Country Life.  I think she has got me sussed out

After my hair appointment the plan was to go out for lunch and I had said what time I would be back for.  When I got back everyone was sitting around drinking tea and reading papers and not at all ready to go out!!!

Eventually we left the building and made our way to Attingham Park where we enjoyed the sunshine and lunch.  We made a tour of the house, it has had a lot of renovations done to it recently which has brought to light some interesting details about the property.  I also  had my first glimpse of the walled gardens which are a fairly new introduction to the property.  On the way back home we visited Sunnycroft which was also interesting and it was nice to see the grounds with very few people around.

The weather was equally as good today so we visited Sudbury Hall and the museum of childhood then came home to a meal that had been bubbling in the slow cooker since this morning.  There was a slight technical hitch, but it was delicious anyway.

I have booked the day of tomorrow so that I could have a lie in to recover from the busy week and weekend.  Unfortunately the heating system broke on Saturday and although I have turned the heating off it still turns itself on at the allotted times.  Today it decided to heat only the upstairs radiators, that should not be possible with the system installed!  Anyway, enough of that technical stuff, the bottom line is that I won’t get my lie in because they might just arrive at 8.00 in the morning :-/