Description

SS 71 NE,
4/12

EAST WORLINGTON,
BLAGROVE HILL (off),
Higher Blagrove Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Mid C18. Rubble and cob, rendered and colour-washed, hipped straw-
thatched roof, tall end brick stacks.
PLAN: single room depth; 2 principal rooms at the front, central narrow entrance
hall containing the stairs. Room to left the kitchen, room to right a parlour, at
its back a shallow pantry, consequently the parlour is smaller than the kitchen.
Gabled wing, probably a dairy at right-angles to rear of kitchen.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, symmetrical front, 3 windows, 2-light, late C20 casements,
glazing bars. Central door opening, C20 door.
INTERIOR with central hall with straight-flight staircase, turned newel at the foot,
oak stick balusters, moulded oak handrail, oak treads. Large kitchen to left of
lobby with large gable fireplace with wood bressumer, fitted settle running along 2
walls. Smaller parlour to right of hall with mid C18 wood chimneypiece, bracketed
mantle; extending along rear of the parlour a pantry also reached from the hall, now
featureless. Gabled dairy wing at right-angles to rear much rebuilt, fireplace with
renewed wood bressumer. The Manor of Blagrove is stated to have been mentioned in
the Domesday Book.

Listing NGR: SS7795817039

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26592715

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)