This outwardly unassertive house in the hilly countryside of eastern Campbell County is noted for its wealth of elaborate, provincially conceived but deftly executed woodwork. Such decoration is characteristic of the best early houses in the region. Some of the trim, particularly the stair, shows a general debt to designs in contemporary pattern books, but it is interpreted in the very free manner of the more skilled regional craftsmen. The construction date of Blenheim is uncertain, although a sharp increase in tax assessment in 1828 suggests that it was improved in that year for William Jones. The place acquired its present name after its purchase in 1869 by John Devereaux in a fit of admiration for the defeat of Louis XIV of France. The house survives with few changes and remains a monument to the rural craftsman’s art. Behind the house is the remnant of an early formal garden.

In 1994 the original 3-acre register boundary was expended to incorporate the 334 acres that currently make up
Blenheim Farm, and that generally coincide with the boundaries that have defined the plantation since before the Civil War.  The entire tract is now under a preservation easement with the DHR’s Board of Historic Resources.
[VLR Listed: 3/10/1994; NRHP Listed: 5/26/1994]