The Shed On Millway Lane


Hi there - I am Rob, and welcome to Cow Close Mill - our shop selling arts, crafts, furniture and original paintings and prints, from our very own workshop on our Derbyshire small holding.

Rob with his family

Growing up on a farm, I have always had a passion for tinkering, building and designing, playing with tools from a very young age. Whether creating planters for the allotment, running my own craft stalls at the village fete, building pens for the sheep, painting the annual christmas cards for the family, or capturing the Derbyshire countryside in photos, my passion for making things only grew as I got older. Attending Cambridge University to study architecture, I continued to channel my skills in design, and used all I had learned in my younger years to build not only models for my course, but resources for the events ran by the university. It was here that I really discovered by passion for reusing something old, to make something new. And so began the start of the project I now call Cow Close Mill.