Overview

This stylish and different shopping village centres around a pleasant red bricked courtyard and a number of wooden barns, which exhibits a wide range of worldwide goods, all set in 16 commercial units, with a Hugh 10,000 sq foot barn like garden furniture showroom. This was once a working farm, and the original buildings have been tastefully transformed into a small craft village. The Farm shop itself prides itself with home baked and locally produced food from small suppliers, and proudly hold a 5 star rating for food hygiene. The Cow Shed coffee shop has indoor and outdoor seating, offering alcoholic refreshments, home cooked fresh meals and snacks, and the important coffee shop. It’s standing in a rustic courtyard, attractive looking, and will warmly welcome you with its friendly staff and their very good simple home cooking. The delightful Henley chocolates shop, founded by a young solicitor who discovered she liked chocolate making opened a few years ago, and now producing quality chocolates using locally sourced fresh food items, and here they run small workshops to help you discover the art of chocolate making. The Barn outlet is a family run small business of antiques, unusual collectables and memorabilia. They have developed a good working relationship with many top quality outdoor furniture distributors from around the world, and if it’s rattan furniture, Gazebos or Parasols you would like, then you will enjoy browsing this outlet, and do check out. their unusual garden ornaments. As you arrive there are a few separate wooden barns, which looked interesting to browse through (photo 1). The car park is to the left, passing neatly stacked log piles (photo 2). Theres an inviting little farm shop, (photo 3) but small, but did manage the wheelchair. Reasonable choice of goods but not a great deal of choice. Next to this there is a small cafe alongside (photo 4) it’s an attractive cafe with lots of seating outside as well. On the opposite side of the courtyard are a number of small shops, interesting to look at all the bits and pieces, but each has a small step to each doorway. (Photo 5). My husband was able to see everything by sitting in wheelchair and looking through the doorway. The Barn Knick knack store has automatic sliding doors and it’s on the level. (photo 6) and just before the entrance there is a staircase to the first floor, but no lift. To the side of the stairs (photo 7) there is a collection of useable antiquated storage toys SEE PHOTO. Inside it’s all on the level on wooden polished flooring, (photo 8) so easy to move around. Cane furniture and some lovely ornamental carved ornaments from actual tree trunks. (Photo 9). Then a mixture of cane furniture for conservatories (photo 10) and more traditional furniture for conservatories or outdoor use (photo 11). Our final thoughts Different, interesting little place full of Knick knacks for outdoor use, while the shops are very small with a step, but everything can be viewed from standing in the doorways. The main large store is worth browsing through and very interesting. It’s well worth a visit, but would be better done on a warm dry day.

Transport & Parking

Parking is available quite close to converted buildings, and mostly on the level, even if over bumpy pot holed areas which offer no problems at all as to getting around.

Access

The main showroom has automatic sliding doors, and reasonably easy to move around once inside. Top floor is sadly out of bounds for disabled at the moment, due to steps to get up there. We did not notice any lift, but forgot to ask anyway. Outside shopping in courtyard was ok, but only because you can sit in your chair and see what is inside each shop without having to get over a small low step at entrance to most outlets.

Toilets

We did not see toilets, as we had arrived to early for most places to be open, it seems it’s around 10.00 before much happens at the moment, that is October 2021.

Staff

The few we met where very friendly and willing to offer support

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