Description

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

2/27 West Terrace walls,
steps and seat at
- Briggens House Hotel
20 metres S of house

GV II

Terrace walls and steps. Circa 1908 for H C Gibbs. Plum brick
with rcessed joints in walls, deeply chamfered stone copings,
stone and moulded stucco seat, York stone paving. Formal lower
terrace to S of house, 80 metres long with seat in recess at .W
end at upper level. 2 flights of 7 semicircular brick steps
project southward, 1 near each end, flanked by low square brick
piers with stone capping set in the long brick retaining wall
with similar capping. Seat modelled in Florentine style with
circular central achievement in the back with motto 'Tenax
roposite'. Possibly part of the same terraced design with the
Portland stone upper terrace and tank attached to the house. An
impressive architectural feature, essential to the setting of the
house.

Listing NGR: TL4136611164

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26631120

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Recommended Books

• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (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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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas