Description

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

2/29 Kitchen Garden Walls
central Sundial Pillar
- and 2 Gates at Briggens
House Hotel 100 metres
E of house

GV II

Kitchen garden walls, sundial and 2 gates. C18 and older red brick
walls of garden, early C18 moulded Portland stone pillar, and 2
wrought iron gates with tall brick piers aria Large moulded stone
caps with ball finials c1908. On sloping ground to the E of the
house, a large rectangular red brick enclosure with straight
sides to N, S and E but a 3-centred curved retaining wall at the
W with central gate and steps down into the garden. A 3 metres
high wall dividing off a narrow enclosure along the S side may
itself be a remaining part of the formal walled garden at
Briggens shown on Drury and Andrews' Map of Hertfordshire in
1766. It has a square pier at its S end some way short of the S
wall of the kitchen garden. The lower part of the W wall is in
C17 brick. The walls are mostly in Flemish bond red brick with
wide joints and courses running down the slope. Wall top
repaired in grey brick. Turned stone pillar like a large
inverted baluster with circular sinking in top, and York stone
base. Arts and Crafts style wrought iron gates on W and S with
scrollwork in top third with parallel vertical bars below.
Probably part of the extensive works at Briggens c1770 by the
Blackmore family. Gates probably for H C Gibbs c1908. -An
historic C18 walled garden. Part of the group of buildings at
Briggens.

Listing NGR: TL4148211186

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26395916

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)