Briarmead

Briarmead is a house built in 1883 by Philip Webb, located on Greatham High Street. The building is roughcast on brick and features late 20th-century clay pantile roofs, raised stone gable copings, and four rendered stacks that are corbelled out at the tops. It is two storeys high with an attic and has an asymmetrical design.

The principal garden front faces west and has a narrow pent pantiled roof supported by brackets. To the right on the ground floor, there is one square bay window and one canted bay window. An open porch with a monopitch roof adjoins the canted bay and features a four-panelled, half-glazed door. To the left of the porch are paired windows, and there are five first-floor windows above. All windows have segmental-arched heads, rendered sills, and sashes with glazing bars. The eaves have a timber boarded soffit.

There is a single gabled dormer with a steep-pitched roof and a late 20th-century casement window, which is also repeated on the rear slope of the roof. To the left, there is a short single-storey pent wing and a later adjoining porch designed by W.F. Linton around 1905, which has a pyramidal roof. The rear of the house features gabled two-storey and pent single-storey wings, with the principal entrance doorway located in the two-storey wing.

This entrance is connected to the street by a long pent loggia that is open on the south side, supported by stop-chamfered timber columns and featuring cobbled paving. The loggia ends in a crow-stepped half-gable that contains a segmental-headed doorway with a boarded door. The sides and rear of the house have Yorkshire sashes and casements with glazing bars.

Inside, there are features designed by Webb, including panelled doors and architraves, window reveals and shutters, fireplace surrounds, and a staircase. The house was formerly known as Hill House.