About Us - Hemswell Antique Centres established in 1986

Located just a few miles from the historic City of Lincoln, Hemswell Antique Centres is renowned as the largest antiques centre in Europe. With four buildings and two coffee shops on site, there are thousands of antiques and collectables to peruse at your leisure.

Unrivalled choice

Get away from it all and spend the day exploring the maze of rooms in each building which feature an unrivalled choice of beautiful high quality goods. We guarantee that it will keep you fascinated for hours. We carry the most extensive range of antique pine, rare kitchenalia, rustic and country made furniture from all over the world. Find that rare and unusual piece to compliment any home. Choose from handsome vintage leather luggage and traditional sporting items. Superbly crafted musical items available such as: gramophones, music boxes and instruments. Always a magnificent range of English longcase clocks, period bracket clocks, and wall clocks plus aneroid banjo, wheel and stick barometers from the late C18th to the early C20th. You will discover a large selection of quality Georgian and Victorian mahogany, oak and walnut furniture for the bedroom, sitting room, dining room or for occasional use.

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Unrivalled choice of antiques at Hemswell Antique Centres

The Centres

The Centres house a sizeable variety of ceramics and glass from early Staffordshire pottery, oriental porcelain and Victorian glass through to collectable C20th ceramics and glass. An excellent choice of decorative items, including oriental rugs, throws, curtains, scatter cushions, lamp shades, and tapestries are always available, and beautifully displayed. Amongst the fantastic display of beautiful items for sale at Hemswell, we have dealers who sell superior quality silver ware and jewellery. This generous selection is of interest to both the collector, and trade buyer.

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Delivery services

If you find that special something that you have fallen in love with, but it is just too large to get in to your vehicle. Do not worry - Hemswell Antique Centres offers a reliable Home Delivery Service using our own fully insured van. In order to provide the most accurate quote we will require your post code.

If you are interested in any item on the website, it would be wise to enquire straight away, as listed items are constantly being sold, and withdrawn from the site. If you are looking for certain items, please do not hesitate to contact us so we may update you on any incoming pieces that may be of interest to you.

Nearly all of our smaller items are posted via Royal Mail Special Delivery as they are fully insured and offer a door to door tracking service. Allowing customers to follow their parcel's journey.

Our team are able to provide quotes for more specialist items such as valuable, fragile and overseas shipping on a case by case basis.

Delivery explained

Time to relax

Why not take some time to relax and sample the delicious homemade delights from locally sourced produce in our licensed coffee shop, situated in Building 1.

We have an extensive menu to choose from with hot and cold refreshments served throughout the day. We have an additional smaller coffee shop at The Guardroom. Perfect for a quick snack to recharge, sandwich or a delectable home baked cake. Why not buy some of our Lincolnshire plum bread to take home? Or treat yourself to an afternoon tea?

The Guardroom Coffee Shop Hemswell Coffee Shop