Put Your Feet Up at our NEW attraction

Put your feet up and test out the beds at Shugborough’s newest attraction – a completely recreated  servants’ bedroom. 

While the estate might be the only tourist attraction in the country to encourage you to have a lie down, unfortunately the mattresses are lumpy and the beds so uncomfortable they are guaranteed to give you back ache. There’s no fine eider down and memory foam here, these mattresses are filled with leftover coconut fibre and straw. 

The brand new “servants’ bed” experience is part of the working estate’s hands on interaction with visitors which allows you to have a go at dollypegging, getting elbow deep in curds and whey in the dairy and real duties expected of lowly servants. 

The original servants’ bedroom has been completely rebuilt by Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service staff and they have also recreated the housekeepers’ store. 

These new servants’ environments will add even more interest to the nation’s best upstairs downstairs experience. 

The servants’ bedroom was originally home to three laundrymaids who would start work at 5am each day. 

Visitors will learn how maids during the 1920s woke to find the floor covered in cockroaches and how they were only allowed a cold bath once a week. 

In the Housekeeper’s Store visitors will learn how the most senior female on the staff kept items such as soap and tea under lock and key to ensure nothing went to waste. 

The Shugborough estate is famous across the country for presenting the real history of a stately home by interpreting the lives of the enormous workforce who provided for the gentry. 

The working environments include the walled garden growing historic varieties of vegetables, the working farm with scullery, bread ovens, dairy and mill and the servants’ quarters with laundry, kitchen and brewhouse along with the new bedroom and store. Costumed characters bearing the names of real Shugborough servants will be working across these areas and interacting with the public.