South Blatchborough Farmhouse

South Blatchborough Farmhouse is a 18th-century farmhouse that has been enlarged to serve as a shooting box. It features a 19th-century outshot and an early to mid-19th-century addition by the Calmady family. The building is constructed of random rubble local stone, with a full-height rendered bay on the shooting box and roughcast on the farmhouse facade. The roofs have different pitches; the shooting box has a very shallow pitch bitumenised slate roof with a decorative fretted pelmet at the eaves, similar to the gabled porch, while the farmhouse has asbestos slates. There is a rendered stack on the left gable end of the farmhouse, a rebuilt 20th-century stack on the right, and a 20th-century stack to the right of the small central block. The farmhouse originally has a 2-cell plan with a cross passage, linked by a 2-bay block to the shooting box, which has a continuous outshot at the rear. The shooting box is U-shaped, with main reception rooms on either side of a central corridor, and stairs rising against the rear wall, flanked by wings linked by a single-storey range.

The shooting box is two storeys high with three bays, featuring all wooden windows that are mullioned and transomed, with pointed arches to the upper lights. It has a full-height canted bay on the left and French windows on the ground floor to the right of the porch, which has double doors that are panelled and half-glazed with 2-light pointed arch lights. The left return shows the remains of a simple three-bay verandah supported by timber posts. The rear elevation has a mullioned and transomed window that is much eroded. The farmhouse has two to three bays, with late 19th-century casements and mid-20th-century windows, a gabled porch, and a plank door.

The interior of the shooting box has been partially sighted, revealing cast iron balusters with a scrolled heart motif, now gilded, and a swept-back mahogany handrail. There are panelled shutters in the front room to the right, a 1930s chimneypiece in both front rooms, and moulded architraves on the doors. The interior of the farmhouse has not been seen. The previous listing indicates that the shooting box dates to 1822.