Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26631119

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)