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Court Barn in Broad Campden is a museum dedicated to the Arts and Crafts movement, the influential design philosophy that fundamentally changed how people approached making things in the early 1900s.
The movement flourished in this area after C.R. Ashbee founded the Guild of Handicraft in nearby Chipping Campden in 1902, establishing the region as a hub for artistic experimentation and skilled craftsmanship.
The collection here is genuinely worth seeing—furniture, metalwork, jewellery, and textiles that all embody the movement's core conviction: that handmade objects crafted with care mattered more than mass-produced alternatives. You'll get a tangible sense of how these ideas reshaped design thinking and why they still inform what we choose to make and keep today.
It's a contemplative space to spend an hour or two, especially rewarding if you care about design history or simply enjoy seeing what talented craftspeople can achieve. Broad Campden is a quiet village, so you won't feel rushed. For something livelier, Chipping Campden is a short drive away with its bustling market square and independent shops offering good spots for lunch or further exploration. Broadway and its distinctive tower are similarly close by, making it straightforward to combine a museum visit with discovering more of the surrounding landscape. You could easily spend a day in this corner of the Cotswolds without running out of things to see.
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