The Corridor Bedroom

This is a ‘corridor bedroom’ which meant that people, including the servants, some guests and members of the family would pass through it to get to the study.

The four-poster bed with its embroidered curtains would have given you some privacy while you were in bed. The curtains also made the bed warm as there wasn’t a fire in this room.

A grand bed of this type was probably used for guests, but when the family were here and did not have guests, their child might have slept in this room with one of the servants.

This is the legendary ‘King Dick’s Bed’, which came from the Blue Boar Inn in Leicester. The inn’s owners claimed that it was the bed which King Richard III slept in the night before the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

However, nearly all of the parts that you can see date from the turn of the 17^th century and later.

Bed in Corridor Bedroom

Bed in Corridor Bedroom

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