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Thursday 11am - 4pm Friday 11am - 4pm Saturday 12pm - 5pm Sunday 12pm - 4pm

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Interior design studio + homewares store in the heart of Ashdown Forest. Created, collected + curated - from our hands to your home.

Covering Sussex, Kent, Surrey.

01/11/2026

Favourite forest fungi finds from my first November walk. 🍄🍄‍🟫🍄

Ashdown Forest | East Sussex walks | fungi | mushrooms

30/10/2026

28/10/2026

Say hello to P•OTTO•RY 🏘️

Otto* started working with clay when he was 7 years old. His first build was a toucan. At 12, he developed his brand, P•OTTO•RY, for a school project, for which he ultimately won their ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ award.

Inspired by the cottages of Dungeness (a favourite spot for a dog walk), he designed and made his ‘incense houses’ (complete with smoking chimney) and ‘house magnets’ (crafted from the offcuts) so “you can create your own village on your fridge.”

Initially selling them at fairs, Otto asked to sell any remaining stock here at H+D, so I have the very last few.

“In a world rushing towards AI, what we create with our hands becomes even more special!”
A motto from Otto for all who buy handmade. 🤍

Otto would like to say a massive thank you to:
🏺Anthea Ashdownpottery for teaching, helping and mentoring him for this project.
🕯️Ben and Louise Bouclé for collaborating with him and providing an incense cone for each house.

*Oh, and I am his mum. I don’t usually post photos of Otto’s face but he has approved these few. And I promise that 100% of P•OTTO•RY sales will go to Otto.

handmade pottery | kids who make | young entrepreneur | young potter | shop small | creative sussex

22/10/2026

Thank you for supporting mamas who run their own businesses and slowly drown in a pool of mediocre parenting during the school holidays. 🙃

Slight changes to opening hours over the next few days…
Friday 23rd October 12-4
Monday 26th October closed
Tuesday 27th October closed

Open as normal all other days. Link in bio with opening hours for the month. Weekly on the door (forever lol-ing at my attempts to write in reverse).

19/10/2026

I had to pop to the studio yesterday morning for a quick meeting before a client goes on holiday. The light was so sparkly and the sky so blue. ✨💙 So here are some pictures, for no other reason than: look at this pretty thing wot I built. No type overlay, no trending music, no filter. Like the good ol’ days. 👵🏻

Independent shopping Sussex | shop indie | shop small |homeware | vintage | antique

15/10/2026

Some new bits (and new old bits) have been arriving over the last week so here begins an intro, or a reintroduction, to the wonderful creatives and makers that I share my potting shed with.

First up, Flick of Flick Skinner 🪡🧵

Based in Hove - chef by day, quilter by night - she works almost entirely in linen, which is why everything she makes is on the most heavenly side of desaturated crinkly-ness. New wallhangings are up (someone buy that star one on the first slide. But, also, don’t. 😜) alongside quilted pouches and Flick’s ‘little creatures’ - filled with lavender for your knicker drawer, but mine is going on the🎄.

I cannot tell you how much I love her and how stoked I am that our paths crossed at that Makers Market in Kemptown, when H+D was but a drafty shed with a gravel floor….

Heath + Down isn’t just for Christmas, but my god I’d appreciate you putting something from me on your list more than any of the Mr Bezos’ of this world would.

quilters | crafting | shop small | shop independent | Sussex shops | handmade

29/08/2026

Last night. Picnicking on the heath and down.

I’m closed for the bank holiday. It’s harder than I thought to be away but we haven’t had a summer holiday this year so I’m taking the time to be en famille before my little intern goes back to school on Wednesday. Or, in other words, getting his summer project finished, sewing labels into uniform, trimming his hair and spending a small fortune on stationery. There will be time for a car boot sale though.

Then it’s back to everything with gusto. Apparently. New term and all that. Although I kinda wish it could be summer forever. I have no idea how we’re all going to get out the house by 7:45am each morning. 🤪

24/04/2026

A bit of new old stuff to distract you from the fact that I’ve been MIA. The reality is school holidays + self employed life always kicks my butt.

I’ve tried my best to capture the patina of these treasures but, as ever, you’re just gunna have to pop by to really ‘get it’. 🤗

Happy weekend. Open Saturday 12-4.

folk pottery | Indian antiques | handmade | homewares | sussex shopping | shop independent

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Uckfield

Opening Hours

Thursday	11am - 4pm
Friday	11am - 4pm
Saturday	12pm - 5pm
Sunday	12pm - 4pm

Website

https://www.heathanddown.com/

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