Description

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

2/25 Gates and Gate Piers
at Briggens House
- Hotel 300 metres N
of house

GV II

Gates and gate piers. Early C19. Neo-classical cast iron gates
and piers at entrance to North Drive at Briggens. A pair of
gates with simple upright spears with heavy flanged heads set in
a line and crossed bars in the lower part of each leaf. Tall
openwork cast iron piers in the form of tapered square pylons on
ball feet, a saltire with superimposed oval at top and bottom,
stylized anthemion ornament up each face within a margin of
rosettes, all topped by deep flat square caps. Similar side
railings sweep down to lower terminal piers of cast iron of
similar design to the higher piers. Early C19 cast iron gates of
a distinguished Neo-classical design. Part of the setting of the
mansion and of the group of historic buildings about it.

Listing NGR: TL4135111490

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26395915

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