The Lodge At Briggens House Hotel 300 Metres North Of House

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

2/24 The Lodge at Briggens House Hotel 300 metres - N of house

GV II

Lodge. Mid C19. Single storey grey brick Tudor style gate house facing N at the entrance to the North Drive. Low pitched gabled roofs of large patent scalloped buff tiles. Main part N-S beside drive, minor wing set back on E with roof at right angles. Front gable has a plinth, 4-centred stone arched doorway with square- headed moulded label and moulded heads as terminals. Half-glazed door with small panes. Stone coat of arms over the door with motto 'Pro Ars et Focis' and a serpentine, pierced wooden bargeboard with finial to the roof overhang. Very wide eaves overhang carried on elaborate pierced openwork cusped wooden brackets with vigorously moulded corbel heads. W flankhas toothed eaves course and 2 sunk panels each with a 2-light mullioned wooden window with cast iron lattice casements and moulded labels with foliate terminals. Tall brick central chimney with 2 square shafts. Similar details on lower gabled wing set back to E. A mid C19 ornamental gate lodge in Tudor style, little altered. Part of the group of historic buildings at Briggens.

Listing NGR: TL4136011492