The Jamaica Inn is a grade II listed building located in Cornwall. Built in 1750, the Inn has heaps of history and has gained a reputation for being one of the most haunted places in the UK.
In the building’s early days it was used as a coaching inn offering service station like facilities for travellers. Lots of these travellers used the Inn to hide away their smuggler’s contraband that had been brought in from ashore. It is said that some of these smuggler characters still haunt the halls of the Inn with guests and staff bearing witness to ghostly happenings over the years.
The author Daphne du Maurier was inspired to write a novel in 1930 about her experience at the Jamaica Inn after seeking refuge there when becoming lost in thick fog with a friend. The famous novel was then later developed into a film directed by none other than Alfred Hitchcock in 1939.
Now used as a hotel and pub, the Jamaica Inn provides dining, accommodation, a museum and ghost hunts. Because of their regular use, the furniture in the Inn had become worn – perhaps something to do with the ghosts – and the Inn decided to search for new furniture which matched the spooky and rustic setting.
Trent Furniture supplied 14 Wheelback chairs for use in the restaurant and bar area. The chairs’ Windsor design also originated in the eighteenth century and has a heritage long enough to match that of the Jamaica Inn.
“We were really keen to find furniture which matched the ‘olde worlde’ atmosphere of our establishment,” commented Sammy Wheeler, PR and PA to the owners at Jamaica Inn. “The chairs ordered from Trent Furniture were perfect and fitted in with our décor seamlessly. What’s more, Trent was well priced and the delivery schedules matched exactly what we were looking for.”
We hope our chairs are withstanding any ghostly goings-on in their eerie new home!