OPENING TIMES

  • Garden Room Shop Open from 6th Jan 2025: 10:00 – 16:00

Address

Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham,
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
SatNav: IP30 9HZ

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ABOUT THE Garden Room

If you enjoy coming to the Christmas shop in autumn, then you’ll love the Garden Room for the remaining seasons! This smaller shop, adjacent to Roots Café, offers an eclectic selection where each item is chosen to enhance your space without compromising your commitment to the environment.

The shop carries an assortment of dried flowers and seeds, vases made from glass, stone and ceramics, along with supplies for flower arranging. Additionally, you’ll discover exquisite candles, candlesticks and chandeliers that can help you create a delightful atmosphere at home.

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Key Information

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Open every day, incl. Bank Holidays

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Card payment only

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Dogs welcome,
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Wheelchair accessible

Blackthorpe Barn is a step-free location with dedicated accessible parking near the entrance and two accessible toilets, one in the cafe, and one in the courtyard.

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Plenty of free parking

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Roots Café next door

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Muddy Stilettos Regional Award Winner

What an honour to have been voted the 2024 Regional Muddy Stilettos Winner for the Best Lifestyle Store in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire!
Thank you to each one who voted for us – it has made our year, especially considering we have only just opened the Garden Room a few months ago.

If you haven’t been to visit yet, here’s a good reason to come by!!

Bringing the outside in

A curated selection of lifestyle items and other delights, with a focus on sustainability and beauty.

Enjoy themed areas such as the conservatory, potting shed, rustic room, kitchen garden and more; you’ll find plenty to encourage your creativity and lovely pieces to give as gifts. Beyond décor items, the Garden Room also features household and garden essentials like small tools, aprons, tea towels, well-being products such as handmade soaps and bath oils as well as cards and gift wrap.

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Cards, gift wrap, ribbons and bags

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Dried flowers, vases, candles and much more

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Delightful decorations for home and garden

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Where to find us

Address: Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
SatNav: IP30 9HZ
What3Words: newly.sofas.debating
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Parking:

Plenty of free parking on site
Please keep to the 5mph speed limit

Disabled access available
This is a rural location and paths can be muddy

The car parks close when Roots Café closes and the entrance gates are locked after this time

Directions:

Blackthorpe Barn is situated just south of Junction 45 of the A14, three miles east of Bury St Edmunds, in the village of Rougham.
Look out for the entrance gates to a long tree-lined avenue at the White House junction, with the Barn on the right of the avenue.
Blackthorpe Barn’s black and white signs direct visitors from local roads.

Questions?

Where do the dried flowers come from?

The dried flowers are grown and dried locally in Suffolk, some in our own garden on Rougham Estate.

Is the shop accessible for wheelchairs?

Yes, wheelchairs are able to be used everywhere around Blackthorpe Barn, without any steps. There are accessible parking spaces near the entrance and two accessible toilets, one in the café and one in the courtyard.
You can find out more about the location from the Ground Plan.

Can I pay with card and cash?

You are welcome to pay by card in the Garden Room shop, but we are not taking cash here.

What is the ethos behind the Garden Shop?

We are doing our best to source our offerings from reputable sources and known origins, knowing many of our suppliers personally.
Most of our stock is made from glass, stone, ceramic and metal, avoiding plastic as much as possible.
We are aiming to offer a curated selection of beautiful lifestyle items with a focus on sustainability and beauty.

Are you dog-friendly?

Yes, dogs are welcome in the shop with paws on the floor.
We sell doggie treats which are locally made and other doggie items too.

What sort of things do you stock?

We are doing our best to source our offerings from reputable suppliers and known origins.
The dried flowers are grown locally in Suffolk, some in our own garden.
The beauty care products are mostly made by a small artisan husband and wife business in Yorkshire whom we have met personally.
There will be cards, giftwrap and bags from a British designer whom we recently met and hand soap from another artisan maker from Somerset.
We will soon be stocking handmade hearts created from twigs and dried flowers created here in our own shop.

We are building up the shop month by month with new suppliers coming on board all the time.

What’s happened to the Christmas Shop?

The Garden Room shop is set out in part of the Christmas shop. We are busy working behind the scenes to set up the well-loved Christmas shop for the coming year and come October, it will be opening again.


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Grab a bite of lunch

Just next door to the Garden Room Shop is Roots Café, serving breakfasts, lunches and coffee and cake, using tasty locally-sourced ingredients wherever possible.

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Enjoy a wander

This year we are expanding the number of walks starting from Blackthorpe Barn, with Rougham Estate offering 18 miles of public footpaths and popular cycling routes, alongside additional permissive paths. Coupled with the café and the shop, this creates a superb destination for a relaxing day out in the Suffolk countryside and to enjoy the changing seasons.


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We are only 8 days away from Christmas!

Many of us now have our trees up and will keep them up until the New Year. So how do you keep them fresh for as long as possible? 

Here are some top tips 🎄

Half of your tree is made up of water so you need to keep it hydrated. So keep your tree watered and check it regularly. 

Before you put your tree up, cut an inch off the bottom for optimum water absorption.

Make sure the stand can be filled with plenty of water and that your tree fits comfortably without having to whittle down any of the sides of the trunk. These parts of the tree are the most efficient absorbing water.

Keep your tree away from heat and direct sunlight. Lowering your room temperature by a degree or two will help.

In the meantime, enjoy that fresh Christmas scent and if you haven’t got your tree yet, we have them on sale until the 22nd of December. 

#Christmas #ChristmasShopping #ChristmasTreeSales  #ChristmasIsComing #ChristmasTime #ChristmasTree #roughamestate #BlackthorpeBarn

We are only 8 days away from Christmas!

Many of us now have our trees up and will keep them up until the New Year. So how do you keep them fresh for as long as possible?

Here are some top tips 🎄

Half of your tree is made up of water so you need to keep it hydrated. So keep your tree watered and check it regularly.

Before you put your tree up, cut an inch off the bottom for optimum water absorption.

Make sure the stand can be filled with plenty of water and that your tree fits comfortably without having to whittle down any of the sides of the trunk. These parts of the tree are the most efficient absorbing water.

Keep your tree away from heat and direct sunlight. Lowering your room temperature by a degree or two will help.

In the meantime, enjoy that fresh Christmas scent and if you haven’t got your tree yet, we have them on sale until the 22nd of December.

#Christmas #ChristmasShopping #ChristmasTreeSales #ChristmasIsComing #ChristmasTime #ChristmasTree #roughamestate #BlackthorpeBarn

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This weekend is a cracker at Blackthorpe Barn!

The talented makers in the festive Barn are having a blast: it’s the last day of Arts&Crafts 2024 so come and join them and find that perfect gift.
From jewellery to leather bags, tiny teapots to recycled robots, artworks and garden art, cheese to ceramics, hats to big glass flowers, wool coats to pinafores, chocolates to soaps, and so much more! What more could you possibly dream of? Tickets £2.50 online, £3 on the door.

Next door, the Christmas shop has decorations too many to count, and the freshly-cut Christmas trees outside are waiting to be taken home and dressed up.

Roots Café is warm and comfortable, the Takeaway Hut is serving tasty treats and the fabulous food trucks include @tikka_tonic with delicious New Delhi street food, @badboisburritos making Mexican food to die for and pizzas and focaccia toasties too… 

Rougham Estate is where you’ll find Christmas this weekend!
All the details from roughamestate.com/welcome
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Don’t miss out! Can’t wait to see you here!

#roughamestate #blackthorpebarn #christmasshop #christmasmarket #suffolkcraftsociety #suffolk #burystedmunds #christmasiscoming

This weekend is a cracker at Blackthorpe Barn!

The talented makers in the festive Barn are having a blast: it’s the last day of Arts&Crafts 2024 so come and join them and find that perfect gift.
From jewellery to leather bags, tiny teapots to recycled robots, artworks and garden art, cheese to ceramics, hats to big glass flowers, wool coats to pinafores, chocolates to soaps, and so much more! What more could you possibly dream of? Tickets £2.50 online, £3 on the door.

Next door, the Christmas shop has decorations too many to count, and the freshly-cut Christmas trees outside are waiting to be taken home and dressed up.

Roots Café is warm and comfortable, the Takeaway Hut is serving tasty treats and the fabulous food trucks include @tikka_tonic with delicious New Delhi street food, @badboisburritos making Mexican food to die for and pizzas and focaccia toasties too…

Rougham Estate is where you’ll find Christmas this weekend!
All the details from roughamestate.com/welcome
Link in profile
Don’t miss out! Can’t wait to see you here!

#roughamestate #blackthorpebarn #christmasshop #christmasmarket #suffolkcraftsociety #suffolk #burystedmunds #christmasiscoming

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This last weekend of the Christmas Arts & Crafts is one not to miss! Makers from around the country have arrived at the Barn to set up their stalls of wonderful hand-crafted goods. This is the last chance to come and visit the festive Barn for the perfect Christmas experience.

Shown here:
@makeroftinyglassstuff @louisepettersson_craftsperson @bellearrayjewellery @clairepirieceramics @wood_row_chocolate @pinnielove @triciafrancispots @flossyfelts @ericajustartist @hedkasedesigns @throw.glaze.fire @marshpigcharcuterie @mays_wonderfully_woven

From ceramics to jewellery, chocolates to artworks and plenty of surprising, quirky, unique things beside, you’ll find the perfect gift here.

Open Saturday and Sunday, 10-4. Tickets £2.50 online, £3 on the door. Children 16 and under, free. Assistance dogs only.

The Christmas Shop and freshly-cut Christmas trees are just next door, with Roots Café, the Takeaway Hut and @tikka_tonic and @badboiburritos serving fabulous snacks and food, come and make a day of it!

All the info from roughamestate.com/welcome
Just off Junction 45 of the A14, outside Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk
See you here!

#roughamestate #blackthorpebarn #craftfair #christmasmarket #findagift #suffolklife #suffolkchristmas #craftmarket #handmade #handmadegifts #artisanmade

This last weekend of the Christmas Arts & Crafts is one not to miss! Makers from around the country have arrived at the Barn to set up their stalls of wonderful hand-crafted goods. This is the last chance to come and visit the festive Barn for the perfect Christmas experience.

Shown here:
@makeroftinyglassstuff @louisepettersson_craftsperson @bellearrayjewellery @clairepirieceramics @wood_row_chocolate @pinnielove @triciafrancispots @flossyfelts @ericajustartist @hedkasedesigns @throw.glaze.fire @marshpigcharcuterie @mays_wonderfully_woven

From ceramics to jewellery, chocolates to artworks and plenty of surprising, quirky, unique things beside, you’ll find the perfect gift here.

Open Saturday and Sunday, 10-4. Tickets £2.50 online, £3 on the door. Children 16 and under, free. Assistance dogs only.

The Christmas Shop and freshly-cut Christmas trees are just next door, with Roots Café, the Takeaway Hut and @tikka_tonic and @badboiburritos serving fabulous snacks and food, come and make a day of it!

All the info from roughamestate.com/welcome
Just off Junction 45 of the A14, outside Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk
See you here!

#roughamestate #blackthorpebarn #craftfair #christmasmarket #findagift #suffolklife #suffolkchristmas #craftmarket #handmade #handmadegifts #artisanmade

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The last Christmas Craft Fair of 2024 is this weekend, with a fabulous range of amazing artisans here. It’s a glorious festive market in an ancient thatched Barn - what could be better at this time of year?

For any last minute gifts you need to find, or to treat yourself because you surely deserve it, this is where you want to be this weekend.

Shown here:
@birdfeedertree @mattbrownmakes @hannahdowdingfurniture @wildwoodkris @potashleather @mariannelakerdesigns @carola_sme CountryCharmCottageClothing @lindsay_duff_jewellery PaulineManders @fionakingdon_artist_in_wood @fairy_kaff @deeayles

Doors open Saturday and Sunday 10-4
Tickets £2.50 online, £3 on the door, children 16 and under, free. Assistance dogs only.

All the info from roughamestate.com/welcome
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#roughamestate #blackthorpebarn #suffolkchristmas #christmasmarket #makersmarket
#artisanmade #madebyhand #craftfair #suffolkcraftsociety #suffolkcrafts #suffolkarts #artisanmade

The last Christmas Craft Fair of 2024 is this weekend, with a fabulous range of amazing artisans here. It’s a glorious festive market in an ancient thatched Barn – what could be better at this time of year?

For any last minute gifts you need to find, or to treat yourself because you surely deserve it, this is where you want to be this weekend.

Shown here:
@birdfeedertree @mattbrownmakes @hannahdowdingfurniture @wildwoodkris @potashleather @mariannelakerdesigns @carola_sme CountryCharmCottageClothing @lindsay_duff_jewellery PaulineManders @fionakingdon_artist_in_wood @fairy_kaff @deeayles

Doors open Saturday and Sunday 10-4
Tickets £2.50 online, £3 on the door, children 16 and under, free. Assistance dogs only.

All the info from roughamestate.com/welcome
Link in profile

#roughamestate #blackthorpebarn #suffolkchristmas #christmasmarket #makersmarket
#artisanmade #madebyhand #craftfair #suffolkcraftsociety #suffolkcrafts #suffolkarts #artisanmade

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