Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26594624

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (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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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)