Rougham Estate Shop: Lifestyle and Garden
OPENING TIMES
- Rougham Estate Shop 10:00 – 16:00
- Open daily, including bank holidays
Address
Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham,
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
SatNav: IP30 9HZ
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About the Rougham Estate Shop
The Rougham Estate Shop is a treasure trove of delights throughout the year. From January to October it specialises in Lifestyle and Garden items and from mid-October to December it transforms into the most magical Christmas Shop.
Situated next to Roots Café, for most of the year this shop is filled with countryside-inspired finds from dried flowers and colourful vases to rustic candles, flower-arranging tools, home fragrances and seasonal home décor.
Come and discover useful gardening essentials, soft cushions, delightful throws, BBQ accessories, garden furniture, eco-friendly toys, thoughtful gifts and even a few treats for your dog. Each item is carefully chosen to enhance your home and garden, without compromising your commitment to the environment.
Well-behaved dogs are welcome in the shop with a paws-on-the-floor policy.
Please do keep your dog under control and ensure that your dog does not disturb other people’s enjoyment of the premises or block passageways.
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.
Find out more and buy Rougham Estate gift vouchers by clicking here. (Opens in new tab)
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 and Lifestyle Shop 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 with a focus on eco-friendly beauty.
Enjoy themed areas such as the 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 Rougham Estate Shop 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.
Cards, gift wrap, ribbons and bags
Dried flowers, vases, candles and much more
Delightful decorations and fragrances
Stylish and Sustainable
The lifestyle shop is filled with beautiful interior touches and useful functional finds, with each piece carefully chosen to help you decorate your both your indoor or outdoor spaces. You’ll discover seasonal home décor items from coloured glass and rustic vases to table pieces that bring warmth and charm to your home; perfect whether you’re dressing up a garden table or setting the scene indoors.
Our collections of dried flowers are all grown in England, including some picked from our own garden here on Rougham Estate. They bring a natural, countryside charm to your home and are a simple way to add calm to any room.
The beauty care products are all made in the UK and are created with sustainability at heart; plastic-free packaging, gorgeous garden-inspired scents and products that feel as good as they look.
You’ll also find beautifully designed cards, gift wrap and bags, all created by British designers we have met personally, which are perfect for adding a delightful touch to any gift.
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 Lifestyle and Garden Shop (January – mid-October) and the magical 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 from £25 to £200 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.
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Where to find us
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
SatNav: IP30 9HZ
Plenty of free parking on site.
Please keep to the 20mph 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.
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.
The Barn is down the avenue, on the right.
Questions?
All our dried flowers are grown and dried within the UK, with many grown locally in Suffolk and some are from our own garden on Rougham Estate.
Yes, wheelchairs and mobility scooters are able to be used everywhere around Blackthorpe Barn, without any steps. However, due to the nature of the shop being housed in a historic farm building, navigating with mobility scooters can be difficult, especially at busy times and particularly at the weekends.
To ensure the safety of all our customers, it might be easier to visit on quieter days during the week where we can better assist you with access, or use an alternative mobility aid, if possible.
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.
You are welcome to pay either by card or cash in the Garden and Lifestyle 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.
Yes we do! Gift vouchers are available to buy from £25 upwards and can be used in Roots Café and the Rougham Estate Shop, including the Christmas Shop, Roots Pantry Shop and towards buying Rougham Estate Christmas trees.
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).
Yes, well-behaved dogs are welcome in the shop with paws on the floor.
We sell doggie treats which are locally made and other doggie items too.
- Please keep your dog under control at all times and ensure that your dog does not disturb other people’s enjoyment of the premises or block any passageways.
The Garden and Lifestyle Shop is set out in part of what has been known as the Christmas Shop for years.
But don’t worry, we are busy working behind the scenes to create the well-loved Christmas Shop for the coming season and it will be opening again mid-October.
Grab a bite of lunch
Just next door to the Rougham Estate Shop is Roots Café, serving breakfasts, lunches and coffee and cake, using tasty locally-sourced ingredients wherever possible.
Enjoy a wander
There are plenty 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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The votes are in, the butchers have delivered, and your custom sausage creation is officially hitting the menu.
We’ve been working with @thurstonbutchers to bring this taste sensation to life, and starting today, the Brie & Chipotle Jam Sausage is ready for you. 🙌
Here is exactly what’s on the board this week:
The Signature Ciabatta…
Our bespoke sausages served in a crusty ciabatta, loaded with fresh rocket, sweet onion jam and a drizzle of chipotle mayo for that extra kick.
The Benedict Swap…
For those who can’t start the day without a Benedict, you can upgrade your Pork Belly Benny to the new Brie and chipotle jam sausages.
Our new sausage flavour profile was chosen by our followers, so pop down and get a taste of what we’ve created especially for you. We’ll be serving these until the batch runs out.
Available at Roots Cafe all week. Open daily from 9am-4pm!
#rootscafe #suffolksausage #roughamestate #rootssausage #thurstonbutchers
So that’s it…
After weeks of hard graft, the final touches on the new thatch have been completed on our much loved Blackthorpe Barn.
As @dodsonbrosthatchers packed up their tools and the scaffolding came down, the rethatch is finally finished and the car park is now back to normal and life here is returning to its gentle rhythm of normality.
We hope everyone who visited to see the rethatch found it as enlightening as we did. Watching traditional craft brought to life reminded us why moments like these, which only come around every 35 years for the Estate, make the history of the estate so precious to preserve.
Here’s a small recap of the final works on the beautiful Blackthorpe Barn.
#roughamestate #blackthorpebarn #burystedmunds
Our baristas Charlie and Katie are staying one step ahead of the grind with some hands-on training from @butterworths coffee.
From dialling in the perfect shot to steaming milk just right, they’ve been fine-tuning their skills with a local supplier that really knows its beans!
It’s all about raising the bar(ista) and making sure every cup we serve is brewed to perfection.
Come and put them to the test…☕️
#BaristaLife #CoffeeCraft #StayGrounded #BrewedToPerfection #SupportLocal
The weather’s looking a little more inviting… which can only mean one thing – it’s time to get out and explore.
There is no better place to do that than in the Suffolk countryside amongst the daffies and other spring flowers.
Our walks around Rougham Estate are the perfect excuse to enjoy a breath of fresh air, stretch your legs, and take in the beauty of the estate as the seasons begin to shift.
Whether it’s a gentle wander or something a little more purposeful, there’s a range of different walks to suit most abilities and all listed on our website.
Then, perhaps a well-earned stop at Roots Café afterwards – and a detour to the Rougham Estate Shop?
What a perfect day out!
#walks #whattodoinburystedmunds #rootscafe #outdoors
We realise we are a little late to the party with this post, but we could not let the week pass without celebrating Suzy – our brilliant visual merchandiser and who is also a qualified florist. She was back on our screens last Sunday for series three of the Jimmy and Shivvy farmhouse show.
Suzy was invited back to share more of her crafting expertise after her previous appearance on the series.
We are very proud to see a member of our team showcasing her skills to the rest of the country because she is really that good. So good that you will see her creativity shine through in the shop when you visit.
If you missed the broadcast, we highly recommend finding it on catch up where she features alongside Paul Hainsworth. In the meantime, you can see Suzy’s creative work in person by visiting the Rougham Estate shop to view her latest displays and floral arrangements.
#floristry #roughamestate #creativity
This dish is making us hungry as we type…
Only available as this week’s Café Special, it’s BBQ pulled pork with sweet potato hash, jalapeno salsa, poached egg, hollandaise dusted with sumac.
Don’t miss out, when it’s gone, it’s gone!
#rootscafe #roughamestate #wheretoeatburystedmunds #cafesburystedmunds
Join us for a fused glass cactus sculpture workshop, where you’ll design and make your own striking piece to take home.
It’s hands-on, a little bit different, and brilliantly satisfying – and no experience needed, just a willingness to have a go.
You’ll be guided through the process step by step, working with colour, shape and texture to bring your cactus to life in glass. A perfect way to try something new and leave with something truly unique.
Book via our website.
#fusedglass #glassworkshop #creativeworkshop
It’s crackers that you can travel across the world and still find a little bit of Rougham Estate.
Our Estate Manager, Simon Eddell, while on holiday, spotted something rather familiar on the shelves – Ryvita, proudly made in England.
We supply rye for @ryvitauk which means that even in Australia there’s a little slice of Rougham. It seems our rye really does have quite the passport.
Sorry… not sorry.
#roughamestate #ryvita #britishfarming #localproduce #farmtotable
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