The use of 'ancient' oak veneer and oak berries on a roundel foot recalls the work of the cabinet-maker George Bullock (d.1818) of London and Liverpool. The reputed Cholmondeley provenance seems more plausible as Bullock has been connected with the house. It is thought he may have been employed by George Cholmondeley, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley (d.1827), to furnish the new dining room in the year before his death in 1818.