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Blake House Craft Centre, Blake End, Nr Braintree, Essex CM77 6SH

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Catch up with what's going on at The Blake House Craft Centre...

Stalls at the Farmers Market at Blake House Craft Centre

Farmers Markets

Our monthly Farmers Markets began back in June and have been slowly increasing in popularity each month with both visitors and a continually growing number of high quality, speciality food ...
The Owl & Fox Art Gallery

The Owl & Fox

It sounds like a lovely children’s book, but this is in fact the newest shop to open up here at the centre and when you step inside, it feels like ...
Lawnmower Racing Championships

Lawnmower Racing

2025 is the year for events at Blake House Craft Centre, which started with our annual Easter Fayre. June saw the launch of our monthly Farmers Markets around the centre, ...
The tasting table at the Sticky Pickle Pantry with shelves of pickles and chutneys

Sticky Pickle and Quirky Magpie

If you’ve not visited the centre recently, you may have missed two of our most recent quirky new shops! Don’t get yourselves in a pickle though, as there’s still plenty ...
Peter Rabbit and friends at Blake House Craft Centre's Easter Fayre Event

Peter and Friends at Easter

The Easter Bank Holiday Monday saw a great day here at the centre, with hundreds of visitors, young, old and four legged joining us for the Day. Peter Rabbit was ...
A great team at The Grain Shed cafe, including George the peacock.

A New Look Café

There have been a few changes around the centre lately and not least of these being that the tea rooms are now under new management! You will now find more ...