5 South Street, on the climb up from the harbour, between Brown Sugar Fowey and Bookends of Fowey, opposite the St Fimbarrus church wall. Anya Hesketh runs the floor herself, Tuesday to Saturday, 10:30 to 16:30. Every piece on the shelves carries a card with the maker's first name and the workshop town. Ceramics, sea-glass jewellery, cards painted in Cornwall, candles poured in Cornwall, kept under glass and wrapped at the counter.
A shop on the climb from the harbour. A name and a workshop town on every piece.
South Street, two minutes up from Town Quay and the Polruan ferry.
Pop in during opening hours, or email the counter at hello@pebbleandsalt.co.uk if you are after a specific Cornish maker. Anya replies during shop hours. We hold pieces at the counter if you are coming back through Fowey later in the week.
Each piece carries a card with the maker's first name and the workshop town. We stock pieces by potters from the Cornishpotterypeople collective, plus solo studios in Truro, St Just and along the south coast. Re-stocked through the season as the makers fire new batches. If a piece is on the shelf, the kiln it came out of is within ninety minutes of South Street.
Each piece tagged with the maker and the cove the glass was lifted from. Drop earrings, pebble-set necklaces and rings, kept under glass on the side cabinet by the window. We hold the tags so we can tell you which Polruan, Lantic Bay or Charlestown beach the green or the cobalt was found on. Sized to suit, with the workshop name on the back of every gift box.
Hand-painted Fowey harbour scenes, the Polruan ferry, the Bodinnick crossing, Daphne du Maurier country up at Menabilly. We slip prints into kraft sleeves at the counter and post tubed if you are flying home with a small case. Each card is signed on the back by the illustrator with the year and the view.
Each candle is tagged with the workshop name and the burn-time. We hold testers behind the counter so you can sniff before the till. The salt-air-and-gorse blend is the one Fowey walkers come back for, and we keep the lichen-and-woodsmoke for the colder weeks once the harbour is quieter.
If you are after a particular Cornish maker we do not have on the shelf this week, email the counter and we will order or hold the next piece in.
The reason Pebble and Salt is distinct on Fowey's gift-shop row is the shelf-card system. Where most coastal shops sell anonymous "Cornish-made" lines, every piece here carries a card with the maker's first name and the workshop town. The Cornishpotterypeople collective is named on our shelves; so are the solo studios in Truro, St Just, Penzance and along the south coast. If a piece is on the shelf, we know who fired, poured, set or painted it, and we will tell you.
“This is an amazing unique shop. Amazing customer service and so helpful. I would definitely recommend.” Jennifer K · Tripadvisor, on a lampshade wrapped for a flight home from Fowey · July 2023
The shop holds about thirty pieces at any one time. Wrap is at the counter, twine and tissue, a maker card slipped into every parcel.
Pebble and Salt Limited was registered at Companies House on 24 December 2021. Anya Hesketh put 5 South Street on the certificate of incorporation, signed off as sole director, and held the address through the opening of the shop the following spring. The first homepage went up that year, the line on it read "Treats, gifts and keepsakes from your time in Fowey", and the sub said the shop was "supporting local makers and artisans, bringing you authentic and sustainable craft to remember us by". Both are still the shop's words.
The shelf-card system arrived with the first restock. Every piece carries a card with the maker's first name and the workshop town. Cornishpotterypeople, the south-coast Cornish potter collective, named Pebble and Salt as a stockist on their own page. Solo studios in Truro, St Just and along the harbour towns followed. The named-maker register is what the shop is for.
In July 2023 a customer came in for a lampshade, asked it be sent home because she was flying in carry-on. Anya wrapped it, posted it, and the customer wrote a five-star Tripadvisor review the following May naming the shop "amazing" and Anya "so helpful". The review is one line, and the line is the shop.
“Pebble and Salt is an independent gift shop in Fowey, Cornwall, with a focus on homewares and lifestyle, offering authentic, sustainable and bespoke locally made products.” Welcome to the Hi Street · directory listing for 5 South Street, Fowey
South Street climbs from Fowey Town Quay to the church. Coming up from the harbour you pass Brown Sugar Fowey at number 2 on the right, then Bookends of Fowey at number 4, then our door at number 5. The St Fimbarrus church wall sits opposite. The Polruan foot ferry lands two minutes away at Town Quay; the Bodinnick ferry runs further up the estuary, a five-minute walk from the shop.
Daphne du Maurier country is on both sides of the water. Her childhood home at Ferryside is reachable on the Polruan ferry. Menabilly, the model for Manderley, is on the headland. Walkers from the Hall Walk often finish at South Street, then drop back to the quay for the ferry home.
Bank Holidays we usually open if they fall on a Tuesday-to-Saturday slot. Check the door card or email before walking up.
Tell us what you are after. A specific Cornishpotterypeople bowl, a sea-glass drop from a particular cove, a Fowey harbour print posted in a tube, a candle from the west Cornwall workshop you saw on Instagram. Anya replies during shop hours. If it is quicker to step in, we are on South Street, Tuesday to Saturday from 10:30.
A reminder that the shop is the place. Posting a known piece is something we will arrange on email, but the wrap and the shelf card live behind the counter on South Street.
If yours is not here, email hello@pebbleandsalt.co.uk or step in during shop hours.
On the climb up South Street from the harbour, between Brown Sugar Fowey at 2 South Street and Bookends of Fowey at 4 South Street. Number 5 is our door. The St Fimbarrus church wall is directly opposite. Coming up from Town Quay it is a two-minute walk, slightly steep.
Yes. Every piece on the shelves has a card with the maker's first name and the workshop town. We hold the full maker list at the counter. Ceramics come from potters working with the Cornishpotterypeople collective and solo studios in Truro, St Just and along the south coast. The jewellery silver is recycled and set in Cornwall. The candles are poured in west Cornwall. The cards and prints are illustrated and signed in Cornwall.
Yes. Anya wraps in tissue, ties with twine, and posts. Royal Mail tracked for the small pieces, courier for the lampshades and the larger ceramics. The Tripadvisor review from July 2023 was a lampshade posted to a customer who had flown in carry-on only. If you are coming back to Fowey later in the season we will hold a piece at the counter rather than post it.
Tuesday to Saturday, 10:30 to 16:30. Closed Sundays and Mondays. Sunday the harbour is yours, Monday is the buying-and-restocking day. Bank Holidays we usually open if they land on a Tuesday-to-Saturday slot, but check the door card or the email before walking up.
The Shopify storefront is being rebuilt. For the moment the shop on South Street is the place. Email hello@pebbleandsalt.co.uk if you have a specific piece in mind, or a Cornish maker's name you are after, and we will check the shelf and hold it for you.