26th & 27th June 2026

The Country Brocante Summer Fair

The Meadow at Rowner Farm, West Sussex RH14 9HT
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The Country Brocante Summer Fair in The Meadow

We are delighted to announce that the Country Brocante is returning to the Meadows at Rowner farm this June. We are looking forward to setting up our pretty white tents amidst the beauty of the West Sussex countryside for a celebration of countryside living, effortless style and the simple joy of discovering something special.

We invite you to browse our unique collection of decorative antiques, English, French and Swedish furniture and vintage homewares, woven together by a shared love of beauty and character.

We are excited to showcase our growing number of Artisan makers, contemporary home designers and slow fashion brands who are connected by a deep respect for craftsmanship and a love of design. Our Garden Galleries will, as always, be overflowing with everything you could want for your garden and an abundance of locally grown plants and flowers.

We hope that you make wonderful memories at our events. For us, the Country Brocante Summer fair evokes the village fetes of our childhoods, a return to a slower pace and simple pleasures; strolling through the grass browsing the stalls, pausing for tea and cake, or strawberries and cream in the sunshine and soaking up the atmosphere.

The fair is an unmissable date on the country calendar. An opportunity to catch up with friends, relax in the sunshine with a glass of something refreshing, delight in finding a hidden treasure or search for a statement price for your home, all nestled within the Sussex countryside in full summer bloom.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Tickets

Earlybird Friday 26th June - £28.00
9 AM - 10 AM exclusive shopping

Standard Friday 26th June - £18.00
10 AM - 5 PM

Standard Saturday 27th June - £18.00
10 AM - 4.30 PM
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What will I find at the Fair

Antiques & Interiors Shopping Tent

Vintage Home & Textiles ∼ Emerging Brands & Artisan Tent ∼ Garden Galleries & Outside Living

Vintage Tea & Cake Tent ∼ Local Artisan Food Vans∼ Talks & Demonstrations Tent

Seasonal Lunch & Tea Tent ∼ Plants & Gardens Stand ∼ Countryside Setting

Workshops, Talks & Book Signings

Book Your Space on the Talks

This summer we are delighted to welcome a wonderful line-up of creatives, interior designers, and authors to The Country Brocante. We have two days of inspiring talks, creative demonstrations, book signings, and the opportunity to meet and chat to experts and leading creatives. 

To book a free place on your chosen talks and follow the links and book via Eventbrite.

Please note:

Spaces for talks and demonstrations are limited. Pre-booking is essential and available exclusively to full ticket holders. Pop by the talk tent throughout the weekend, our wonderful authors and creatives will be there throughout the day to sign books and say hello. Please note for some the creative workshops, such as Ramshackle Flowers ‘Floral Headslides Workshop’, you can book directly with the maker.
Details in the event information page.

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Workshops

ramshackle flowers

Floral Headslides Workshop

Lucy Lee, Ramshackle Flowers

Lucy Lee is a Florist and Grower who lives in West Sussex, and is the creator of Ramshackle Flowers. She creates curious beauty using homegrown and traditionally preserved everlasting flowers with a signature style that is wild, pastoral, and occasionally quirky.

Originally from West Sussex, she went on to study philosophy, work in publishing, and then brand design. As a Florist, she brings this unique background to her work. Flowers are the root of her personal philosophy, to live a life filled with as much love, beauty and creativity as possible.

Create your own whimsical everlasting floral hairslide made from dried flowers and foliage, finished with a vintage ribbon, at the Country Brocante Summer Fair.

Workshop Times

Friday 26th June, 11 am and 3 pm
Saturday 27th June 11 am

Cost: £25.00 / Duration: 45 minutes / Bring: Nothing necessary

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Talks & Book Signings

Meandering Thoughts around Meadow Manor

Rachel Ashwell, Shabby Chic

Rachel Ashwell founded Shabby Chic® in 1989, opening the first store in Santa Monica and shortly thereafter in New York's Soho neighborhood. The brand's rising popularity (including an appearance on Oprah and inclusion on her list of Favorite Things, 15 retail locations, and a partnership with Target) led to the launch of an e-commerce site in 2011. Rachel launched her first book, The World of Shabby Chic: Beautiful Homes, My Story + Vision, in 1996 and will launch her twelfth, Meadow Manor: My Majestic English Countryside Home, in March 2026. Rachel also hosted a TV show, Rachel Ashwell’s Shabby Chic, from 1999-2003 on E! and the Style Network.

Over the past 36 years, the brand has partnered with 1-800 Flowers, offered wallpaper and paint with Graham and Brown, window treatments with Ashley Wilde, has product available in the UK at NEXT, in the United States at Dillards, TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Home Goods , and Home Sense, and continues to inspire interior designers, home enthusiasts, and travelers with the perfect balance of English heritage and California lifestyle.

Friday 26th June, 11.30 am

My French Country Home

Sharon Santoni

For anyone who has ever fallen in love with a French flea market or dreamed of coming home with the perfect brocante find, this book is your essential companion. Published by Flammarion, The Art of Antiquing in France draws on Sharon's thirty years of hunting through the markets, fairs and dealers of Normandy and beyond. It covers everything from understanding French antique styles and periods to navigating the unwritten rules of the brocante world — the etiquette, the bargaining, the relationships with dealers. Beautifully illustrated, it's part practical guide, part love letter to a uniquely French way of life that is as much about community and culture as it is about the objects themselves.

Sharon Santoni is a British writer and lifestyle curator who has lived in France all her adult life, and in Normandy for over thirty years. After raising her four children in the French countryside, she reinvented herself at fifty — launching a blog that grew into My French Country Home, a lifestyle business celebrating the beauty of French country living. Today she runs a boutique, a magazine, a subscription box, and a travel programme, with a devoted following of over 370,000 on social media. The Art of Antiquing in France is her most recent book, in which she shares her love of buying antiques and brocante throughout France.

Friday 26th June, 1 pm

Through the Seasons

Charlie Gray

A love letter to home, nature and the quiet rhythms of the year.

For the quiet keeper of home - the one who lights candles on ordinary days, folds blankets just so, and makes soup when words fall short.

Discover the quiet magic of living in harmony with the seasons in this heartfelt celebration of nature and tradition. With warmth and gentle wisdom, I guide you through twelve months of simple pleasures - with recipes, seasonal home remedies and practical advice for the home and garden.

About Charlie

Charlie Gray is the voice behind Ask Charlie, a brand rooted in seasonal living, homemaking and the quiet rhythms of country life. From her farmhouse kitchen she shares AGA cooking, practical home skills and the kind of real, grounded content that makes everyday life feel a little more intentional. She is the author of Through the Seasons, teaches online courses and won the reality TV show Handcuffed. Charlie creates content across YouTube, Substack, Instagram and TikTok, and runs the Ask Charlie Members Club, an exclusive community for those who want to go deeper into seasonal home life. 

Saturday 27th June, 12 noon

The Magical World of Magpie and the Wardrobe

Sam McKechnie

Sam Mckechnie is an artist, a doll maker & a designer. She has always been drawn to forgotten, unloved treasures and has a fascination with magic, even the most mundane. Sam's work is inextricably entwined with fairytales, magic and charms and her work has featured in many books and magazines across the globe. Sam holds doll making workshops throughout the year. She created The Magpie & the Wardrobe atelier in 2002 as an extension of her artwork, making fashion accessories & unique bespoke pieces.

She is the co author of The Magpie and the Wardrobe & author of Miss Violet’s Doll’s House & Gentle Spells & Kind Magic.

Saturday 27th June, 1.30 pm

Exhibitors

  • Agnes Home

  • Alchemist Antiques & Tasha Interiors Ltd

  • All Things Vintage and Beautiful / Etoile Brocante

  • An Acre of Land

  • Baker Gray

  • Bellmans Auction House

  • Bonni Buildings

  • Bonnie Mustoe-Whitehill

  • Bridge Street General Store

  • Brocante & Blooms

  • Candle Wise

  • Cher & Michael Todd Antiques

  • Cherry Vintage Home

  • Chloe Cyphus Antiques

  • Clothsmith

  • Country Artisan Interiors

  • Dan Cooper Garden

  • Dilli House Ltd

  • Elgiva London

  • Fabulous Vintage Finds

  • Flower Street Vintage and Rustic

  • Found Country Antiques

  • Frankly Scarlet

  • Gabrielle Solly Illustration

  • Garden House Antiques

  • Gerty

  • Handknits by Me

  • Harriett Ellis Home

  • Haslam West

  • Heartsnkisses

  • Hellish Designs

  • Hogben Pottery

  • Hunter + Collector

  • Ineko Home Ltd

  • Isseapink

  • Just Belle

  • Karen Dunbar Design Ltd

  • Karensvintagefrench

  • Kate Barton

  • Kate Brigden

  • Kate Kaemena

  • Katie Bell Treasure

  • Kitty Robinson

  • Les Greniers d'Iris

  • Lewes Curated

  • Lois Pinnock

  • Love Life Love Vintage

  • Lynda North Garden Antiques

  • Magpie & The Wardrobe (Book Talk)

  • Mimi Vintage

  • Minni Parker Designs

  • Mistress of Linen

  • Mousekins Ltd

  • My Vintage Home

  • Nicholas & Steele

  • No. 1 Lewes

  • Oh Pea

  • Pagette Jewellery

  • Paul Drewitt Antiques

  • Pendleton Plants

  • Petit Panier

  • Plump

  • Preloved in Lewes

  • Primrose Lane

  • Rachel Ashwell (Meadow Manor - Book Talk)

  • Ramshackle Flowers (Workshops)

  • Runaround Retro

  • S.J.Bennet Antiques

  • saayabystudio22

  • Salon Libertine West

  • Salt & Clay

  • Sandback Antiques

  • Scobel

  • Seatherny Home

  • Sharon Santoni (The Art of Antiquing in France - Book Talk)

  • Sophie Harmer Home & Design

  • Stella & Ray

  • Suzie Catlin Designs

  • The Corner Store Midhurst

  • The Fleeting Custodian & Where the Good Stuff Is

  • The Hampshire Seed Co.

  • The Rustic Shack / Jennings and Cox

  • The Verdigris House

  • Together by Nature

  • Trunk Vintage

  • Wild Willow Flowers

  • Woodpigeon & JATdecorative

Additional Information

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Location

The Meadow, Rowner Farm,
Rowner Road, Billingshurst,
West Sussex  RH14 9HT

Additional Information

Enjoy tea & cake in our vintage canvas tent, and find local produce and food trucks serving delicious lunches.

Tickets are available on the day, however, ticket holders will get priority access to the fair. Once you have purchased your ticket on the day you may join the ticket holders queue. You will receive a small saving by purchasing online, and look out for offers on the run up to the fair.

Dogs on leads are very welcome, however we do urge you to consider the heat on the day.

Disabled parking available next entrance.

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