Briggens Home Farm House And Attached Wall At East

TL 41 SW HUNSDON HARLOW ROAD (A414 ) (north side)

2/21 Briggens Home Farm house and attached 24.1.67 wall at E

GV II

House and wall attached. Late C16, late C17 chimney probably replacing a timber one (RCHM Typescript), low C17 red brick garden wall attached at E, E room added and symmetrical 'Gothic' front applied as a landscape feature, probably when Robert Chester built Briggens opposite c1719, with a landscaped park probably by Bridgeman. Symmetrical late C19 single storey rear wings added when house formed 2 cottages. Older part is a 3- unit, lobby-entry plan house facing S, with unheated service room at W end. Timber frame plastered and steep old red tile gabled roof. 2 storeys, 2 windows roughcast, false front on S rises above level of old eaves. All windows on front have ogee headed 2-light wooden windows with transoms and iron plate casements (painted imitation window at upper right). 2 3-sided 2 storeys bays with ogee headed blind recesses in sides. Central 4-panel flush beaded door in simple pilastered surround with flat hood on shaped brackets. Axial beams chamfered and stopped, on Ground floor. Stair rises to rear of massive central chimney. Exposed close studding and long curved tension braces on inside of W wall and similar bracing in partition in same upper room. Clasped purlin roof. Named Juicy Brook house in Tithe Award of 1842. An historic C16 timberframed house, modernised in the C17, later disguised as a Gothic 'eye-catcher' in the C18 and little- altered since. Picturesque element in the landscape and part of the group of historic structures around the country house of Briggens.

Listing NGR: TL4119511470