The stand of two inverted T-shaped uprights linked by 2 stretchers, the uprights chamfered and surmounted by carved birds; the swinging box formed from boards with horizontal mouldings, with corded netting at the base of the box to suspend a mattress, the box suspended on iron rings and hooks

The cradle was reputedly Henry V's, although it post-dates his infancy by around a century. The earliest recorded owner is the Revd. Ball, in 1773, when a drawing was made of the cradle, later to be published in Bonnors Perspective Itinerary of 1798. The cradle was reputedly from Courtfield, a mere 5 miles to the north of Newland, where Henry V was nursed as a baby. This association endured until the twentieth century and the antiquarian G. W. Braikenridge bought the cradle specifically for its romantic association with Henry V. The Rev. John Eden, vicar of St Nicholas composed a poem to welcome it to Broomwell House in 1833, where it was displayed in the Library: "...And didst thou, then, Rude couch of simplest workmanship, receive The infant form of him whose martial name In after times shot terror through the ranks of palsied France!... O what motley forms Doth sight of thee, cradle of infant Harry Call up before imagination's eye!". It was engraved in Henry Shaw's Specimen's of ancient furniture, 1836. The cradle was subsequently acquired by Edward VII at the dispersal sale of Braikenridge's collection held at Christie's in 1908.