Briggens Home Farm House And Attached Wall At East

Briggens Home Farm House and the attached wall at the east are notable structures dating from the late 16th century, with a late 17th-century chimney that likely replaced an earlier timber one. The east side features a low 17th-century red brick garden wall. An east room was added, and a symmetrical 'Gothic' front was applied to the house, likely when Robert Chester built Briggens opposite around 1719, alongside a landscaped park possibly designed by Bridgeman.

The house, which was later converted into two cottages, has symmetrical single-storey rear wings added in the late 19th century. The older part of the building is a three-unit, lobby-entry plan house facing south, with an unheated service room at the west end. It is constructed of timber frame and plaster, topped with a steep old red tile gabled roof. The house is two storeys high with two roughcast windows on the front, which features a false front that rises above the old eaves. All front windows are ogee-headed, two-light wooden windows with transoms and iron plate casements, and there is a painted imitation window at the upper right.

The house includes two three-sided, two-storey bays with ogee-headed blind recesses on the sides. The central entrance has a four-panel flush beaded door set in a simple pilastered surround with a flat hood supported by shaped brackets. The ground floor features axial beams that are chamfered and stopped. A staircase rises behind a massive central chimney. Inside, there is exposed close studding and long curved tension braces on the west wall, with similar bracing in the partition of the upper room. The roof has clasped purlins. The house was referred to as Juicy Brook house in the Tithe Award of 1842. It is an important historic timber-framed house from the 16th century, modernized in the 17th century, later altered to resemble a Gothic 'eye-catcher' in the 18th century, and has seen little change since then. It adds a picturesque element to the landscape and is part of a group of historic structures surrounding the country house of Briggens.