Piggotts House, With Barn Attached To North

Piggotts House, with an attached barn to the north, is a house and barn complex located in Hughenden. The house dates from the early 19th century and was extended around 1930. It is constructed of brick, features dentil eaves, and has an old tile roof with a half hip on the front projection. The building is arranged in an L-plan with a two-storey rear range that has a blocked doorway and a three-light leaded casement window on the first floor to the left. The projecting range to the right is one storey and attic, with two bays of lowered two-light leaded windows on the ground floor and two gabled dormers with three-light wooden casements. There is a blocked semi-circular arch to the left in line with the chimney. The 1930 bay at the front has an arched door. To the left, there is a lower brick range from the early to mid-19th century, which is also one storey and attic, featuring four three-light wooden casements on the ground floor, two additional casements in gabled dormers, and a bell hanging over a half-glazed door to the right.

The barn, dating from the late 18th to early 19th century, has brick lower walls, weatherboard above, and an old tile roof, consisting of four bays. The front has doors at each end and three wooden windows, while the rear has a gabled projection at the second bay and curved principal trusses. A large 20th-century concert hall made of concrete blocks is located at the rear but is not of special interest.

Eric Gill, the notable artist and sculptor, lived in the house from 1928 to 1940. During this time, the house was partly used as an engraving workshop, with the former dairy serving as a chapel. Gill worked on various significant projects, including carvings for St. James' Park Underground Station, the figures of Prospero and Ariel for Broadcasting House, The Recreation of Man for the League of Nations building in Geneva, and the altar of the English Martyrs at Westminster Cathedral.