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No visit to the Peak District is complete without visiting the award-winning Delightful Living! This beautiful shop has been named as the Best Lifestyle Store in the region, so make sure it’s on your list of Peak District places to visit!
Delightful Living can be found in Eyam Hall Courtyard in the historic village of Eyam. The shop has made The Courtyard Barn it’s home and the dramatic double height space creates a stunning backdrop for Delightful Living’s range of gorgeous homewares, gifts and accessories. Many items have been sourced locally, or are made by the business owners themselves.
Picture yourself enjoying relaxed shopping in this beautiful historic location, browsing a delightful range of homewares, baskets, pots, pretty glassware, tableware, ceramics, locally made scented candles and stylish soft furnishings and accessories.
Next door to The Courtyard Barn you’ll find Delightful Living’s sister store, ‘The Bothy’. Inside the pretty stone barn with its vaulted ceiling, you’ll discover a beautiful range of botanical inspired gifts. Plants for inside and out, pots, planters, wicker baskets and nature inspired gifts for gardeners.
The Courtyard Barn and The Bothy are full of delights for the home and garden. It really is a shopping paradise set amidst the gorgeous backdrop of Eyam Hall and the Peak District countryside.
Eyam Hall Courtyard is a great destination where you can shop, eat, drink and relax while exploring the historic village of Eyam and its surrounding countryside. There’s free parking for visitors to Eyam Hall Courtyard and the courtyard shops, cafe, bar and restaurant are all dog friendly too. This Peak District gem really does make for a lovely day out!
Opening Hours
Summer hours – 10.30am – 4.30pm Tuesday to Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays.
Please check website for latest winter opening hours.
Delightful Living also make unique personalised gifts for all occasions. These are designed and made in the barn’s studio and workshop and orders can be placed in-store or online. Items are individually made to order by the passionate business owners themselves. The business first started back in 2008 and after 15 years selling purely online the Derbyshire couple opened their beautiful lifestyle store in 2023 and filled it full of loveliness that everyone wants to own!
Delightful Living design and make both seasonal products and gifts for all the family, whatever the celebration. From Births, Christenings, Birthdays and the BIG Birthdays, to Weddings, Anniversaries and Mother’s & Father’s Day Gifts. Then of course there are delightful garden accessories in the summer months, and an inspirational range of personalised Christmas gift ideas.
As well as the many products designed and made by Delightful Living themselves, their store in Eyam is jam-packed full of other fabulous gift ideas from carefully selected suppliers, many of which are small businesses and makers local to The Peak District.
If you aren’t able to visit just yet, then be sure to check out Delightful Living’s online store, where you can order a great selection of personalised house signs, garden signs, tins, prints and much, much more! Check it out for yourself here!
The shop at Delightful Living couldn’t be in a more fitting, idyllic setting! Tucked away in a pretty, cobbled courtyard, there are goods inside and spilling outside, adding to Eyam Hall Courtyard’s rustic charm.
Here you will also find a brand-new bar/restaurant, serving refreshing hot and cold drinks, and delicious meals, with indoor and outdoor seating. There are more brand-new eateries and shops coming soon, so watch this space!
Remember the good news too – there’s free parking, so you can treat yourself to as much as you like and simply load your car up!
Eyam itself is aptly delightful! This wonderful village attracts visitors to the Peak District year after year, due to its fascinating history and stunning surrounding countryside.
Back in the 1600s Eyam was the site of an outbreak of the bubonic plague, so the locals decided to quarantine themselves from the rest of the world for 14 months, meaning that nobody could leave or enter the village during that time. One of the Boundary Stones, where food and medicines were left for the residents, can still be seen today, as can many more of the fascinating historic features of this wonderful village, providing for a really interesting day out, which is obviously even more intriguing since our own recent quarantines!
Today, Eyam is a beautiful village where the narrow streets are lined with pretty cottages and impressive houses, many with spectacular gardens which are open to the public in the summer on a prestigious garden open day. Not forgetting Eyam Hall, which is open to the public for tours, and Eyam Museum, which tells the story of this unique village. Eyam also a small selection of shops, cafes and tea rooms, plus a wonderful village pub, so there’s plenty to fill your day here.
Eyam is surrounded by beautiful countryside and numerous picturesque walks. Perhaps take a stroll over to nearby Foolow with its pretty village pond, or to Bretton with far reaching views. Another popular walk is the 5.5 mile circular route to Stoney Middleton, another historic and pretty village.
As you can see a trip to Delightful Living really can make for a great trip out and the proud new store owners can’t wait to show you all of their fabulous delights!
Contact Delightful Living who will be delighted to assist.