Higher Blagrove Farmhouse

Higher Blagrove Farmhouse is a mid-18th century farmhouse situated off Blagrove Hill, East Worlington. It is constructed of rendered and colour-washed rubble and cob, with a hipped straw-thatched roof and tall brick stacks at the ends.

The building has a single-room depth, with two principal rooms at the front: a kitchen to the left and a parlour to the right. A central, narrow entrance hall contains the staircase. Behind the parlour is a shallow pantry, making the parlour slightly smaller than the kitchen. A gabled wing, likely originally a dairy, projects at right angles to the rear of the kitchen.

The front of the farmhouse is symmetrical, with two storeys and three windows. These are late 20th-century casements with two lights and glazing bars. A central door opening has a 20th-century door.

Inside, the central hall features a straight-flight staircase, with a turned newel at the foot, oak stick balusters, a moulded oak handrail, and oak treads. The large kitchen to the left of the hall has a substantial gable fireplace with a wood bressumer, and a fitted settle along two walls. The smaller parlour to the right of the hall contains a mid-18th century wood chimneypiece with a bracketed mantle. A pantry, extending along the rear of the parlour and also accessible from the hall, is now a plain space. The gabled dairy wing at the rear has been largely rebuilt and includes a fireplace with a renewed wood bressumer. The Manor of Blagrove is recorded in the Domesday Book.