🏠 IndoorSeasonal openingEducationalGardensMemberships available
What’s there
- Café on site
- Free parking
- Buggy friendly
- Picnic area
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
- SEN friendly
Ample free car park a short stroll from the House; gates locked once visitors leave, no overnight parking. Three Blue Badge bays in front of the House.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Shaw House is a Grade I listed building where visitors can explore 400 years of history through exhibition rooms and four recreated period rooms: the Tudor Oak Room, Queen Anne Drawing Room, Georgian Parlour and an Edwardian Bedroom. The house displays life from Tudor to Edwardian times. There is a special exhibition 'Dressed for Battle' showing English Civil War arms and armour on loan from Littlecote House, and a 'Dressed for Shaw' display with replica costumes highlighting changing fashions through time.
Spring & Summer 2026: daily 14 Feb-30 Sep (closed Good Friday). Autumn 2026: Mon-Sat in Oct (closed Sun). Winter 2026: daily 1-20 Dec. Closed November and January.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- I-spy book
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
- Painkillers for grown-ups
- Hair bobbles
- Backseat organiser
- Travel games
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