OPENING TIMES

  • Garden Room Shop 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 living 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 as well as gardening accessories, treats for your dog and toys for children.

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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 made our year, especially considering we had only just opened the Garden Room a few months before.

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 and fragrances

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Gift Vouchers for the Shop and Café

Gift vouchers for the Rougham Estate Shop make a thoughtful present for anyone who loves beautiful things. Perfect for spending in both the Garden Room Shop and the Christmas Shop (mid-October to December), they can be used to choose from our carefully curated selections of homeware, gifts, and seasonal treasures.
Vouchers are available in a range of values and can also be used at Roots Café, the Pantry Shop and towards buying Christmas trees. Valid for 1 year from the date of purchase, they can be spent over multiple visits. Give the gift that lets your special person enjoy choosing something they’ll truly love.

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.

Do you sell gift vouchers?

Yes we do! Gift vouchers are available to buy from £25 upwards and can be used in Roots Café, the Garden Room Shop, the Christmas Shop, in Roots Pantry Shop and towards buying Rougham Estate Christmas trees.
The gift vouchers last for 1 year from the date of purchase and can be used over multiple visits. They make great gifts, with a wide range of items to spend them on.

You can find out more and buy Rougham Estate gift vouchers by clicking here (opens in new tab).

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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Don’t miss out on our drink special this week - our Strawberry fizz cooler 🥤

Perfectly aligned with Wimbledon…🍓
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Don’t miss out on our drink special this week – our Strawberry fizz cooler 🥤

Perfectly aligned with Wimbledon…🍓
#RootsCafé #RoughamEstate #DrinkSpecial #Don’tMissOut #Wimbledon

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Yes, the sunflowers 🌻are growing 🙌 but we haven’t had much rain recently (raindance anyone?).
They are still at the small plant stage and are getting bigger every day👍
We are hoping to open the field early August (we’ve pencilled in 1st August) - this will be confirmed closer to the time. 
Entrance will be free, as usual, with snacks and drinks provided by Roots Café this year. You are welcome to bring your own picnic as before. 
But the burning question is…
🌻Will the flowers be tall this year?
🌻Or will they be like the mini-sunflowers of 2022?
🌻And does it even matter, because a sunflower field is fabulous anyway? 🌻😎

#roughamsunflowers #suffolksunflowers #sunflowerfield #lovesunflowers

Yes, the sunflowers 🌻are growing 🙌 but we haven’t had much rain recently (raindance anyone?).
They are still at the small plant stage and are getting bigger every day👍
We are hoping to open the field early August (we’ve pencilled in 1st August) – this will be confirmed closer to the time.
Entrance will be free, as usual, with snacks and drinks provided by Roots Café this year. You are welcome to bring your own picnic as before.
But the burning question is…
🌻Will the flowers be tall this year?
🌻Or will they be like the mini-sunflowers of 2022?
🌻And does it even matter, because a sunflower field is fabulous anyway? 🌻😎

#roughamsunflowers #suffolksunflowers #sunflowerfield #lovesunflowers

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The Garden Room Shop has had a change around. Full of vibrant colours to add some injection of zest into your home!
#roughamestate #blackthorpebarn #gardenroomshop #interiors #decoration

The Garden Room Shop has had a change around. Full of vibrant colours to add some injection of zest into your home!
#roughamestate #blackthorpebarn #gardenroomshop #interiors #decoration

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For the first time ever, we are opening the Country Christmas Shop - exclusively to subscribers (of our newsletter) before it’s open to the public. 

It will be first come first served - and there will be limited tickets available. 

If you want to be in with a chance to access this VIP event, please subscribe to our newsletter to hear first. 

roughamestate.com - subscribe option is at the footer of our website - link in profile

#VIPEvent #SpecialOffer #ChristmasAtBlackthorpeBarn #Exclusivity #LimitedAvailability #RoughamEstate #ChristmasMagic

For the first time ever, we are opening the Country Christmas Shop – exclusively to subscribers (of our newsletter) before it’s open to the public.

It will be first come first served – and there will be limited tickets available.

If you want to be in with a chance to access this VIP event, please subscribe to our newsletter to hear first.

roughamestate.com – subscribe option is at the footer of our website – link in profile

#VIPEvent #SpecialOffer #ChristmasAtBlackthorpeBarn #Exclusivity #LimitedAvailability #RoughamEstate #ChristmasMagic

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Meet Grace – barista at Roots Café and soon-to-be triathlon superstar! 🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏊‍♀️

She’s taking on the Outlaw Half Holkham this July:
that’s a 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile cycle, and a casual 13.1 mile run to finish (we’re out of breath just typing that).

Grace has been training hard for months and is raising money for Alzheimer’s Research UK – a cause close to many hearts. What an inspiration. 💜

If you spot her in Roots Café, wish her luck by (she isn’t always wearing her helmet at work 😂), or better yet, support her journey here:
👉 https://givengain.com/project/grace-raising-funds-for-alzheimers-research-uk-103388

Go Grace, we’re tri-ing not to burst with pride! 🌟

#RootsCafe #OutlawHalfHolkham #TriathlonHero #GraceGoesTheDistance #AlzheimersResearchUK #GoGraceGo

Meet Grace – barista at Roots Café and soon-to-be triathlon superstar! 🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏊‍♀️

She’s taking on the Outlaw Half Holkham this July:
that’s a 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile cycle, and a casual 13.1 mile run to finish (we’re out of breath just typing that).

Grace has been training hard for months and is raising money for Alzheimer’s Research UK – a cause close to many hearts. What an inspiration. 💜

If you spot her in Roots Café, wish her luck by (she isn’t always wearing her helmet at work 😂), or better yet, support her journey here:
👉 https://givengain.com/project/grace-raising-funds-for-alzheimers-research-uk-103388

Go Grace, we’re tri-ing not to burst with pride! 🌟

#RootsCafe #OutlawHalfHolkham #TriathlonHero #GraceGoesTheDistance #AlzheimersResearchUK #GoGraceGo

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