An old dairy shed near Wallingford has been turned into a shop which will be opened to the public this week.

The Cow Shed Collective in Crowmarsh Gifford will be a shop housing more than 20 creatives selling crafts, goods, and artisan products.

It will open this Friday (November 8) at noon with a ribbon cutting ceremony from Oxfordshire TV personality and antiques dealer Brenda Haller.

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The space was set up and transformed by owner-manager Beverley Battista, who was a professional florist before she discovered her love of antiques.

“It all started over a taxidermy fish,” she said.

“My partner had been secretly buying all these taxidermy fish without telling me, and once I realised there were about 20 of them, and we had nowhere to put them in the house.

“We ended up going to an antiques centre in Wallingford, and that made us decide to come out on our own.”

The Cow Shed will feature a huge range of products and services from local crafters, from handmade jewellery, homeware, skincare, and vintage clothing to a coffee cart, and even a dog groomer.

“We’ve just got so much in here,” said Ms Battista.

The manager-owner has had the space for just four weeks but jumped at the chance to open the collective.

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She explained: “I had a shop in Pangbourne which had to close, but it happened for a reason, because all of a sudden, my postie came to the door and told me she’d found a shed.

“I came to see it and it just felt right.”

The Cow Shed Collective is in Crowmarsh Hill, near Wallingford, and will be open 10am-4pm every day until Christmas.

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