The outwardly unassertive Blenheim 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 focal point of the property remains the weatherboarded, story-and-a-half, Federal period Blenheim plantation house situated at the end of a long cedar-lined lane above fields overlooking the bottom lands of Falling River. The upland portion of the property is mostly wooded. To the east of the house is the remnants of an early formal garden; scattered about the property are various visually-compatible late-19th- to early-20th-century outbuildings and farm buildings. 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]