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Briggens House is a listed house with parklands. It was built as a stately home, then in the 1940s was used by the Special Operations Executive as the main forgery operation to support their secret agents and undercover special forces. It became a Polish training section. Lots of history on that, I encourage you to have a a gander on that online.
In 1979 the house was converted into a hotel and conference centre with a separate golf club occupying the parkland. The hotel closed its doors In 2006. In 2010 it reopened as a wedding venue but this did not have planning permission and was immediately closed down. As of November 2019 the house remains closed to the public. It was then briefly used for police training. But is now left to decay.
Some people have explored (or tried) this when it had off site security. And an alarm But the response was pretty great and pretty quick, including a dog. This is just from what I’ve heard, so I’m not sure how successful has been in the past.
We went along fully expecting to be caught within 10min, however the alarm no longer works and nothing alerted security. Great for us. But bad for the place. Kids have trashed the place hard.
Post explore we drive off and pulled in down the road to harass an armadillo (it was on from Wish and didn’t entertain us). Then we noticed a police helicopter circling the hotel. So we timed that well!
In 1979 the house was converted into a hotel and conference centre with a separate golf club occupying the parkland. The hotel closed its doors In 2006. In 2010 it reopened as a wedding venue but this did not have planning permission and was immediately closed down. As of November 2019 the house remains closed to the public. It was then briefly used for police training. But is now left to decay.
Some people have explored (or tried) this when it had off site security. And an alarm But the response was pretty great and pretty quick, including a dog. This is just from what I’ve heard, so I’m not sure how successful has been in the past.
We went along fully expecting to be caught within 10min, however the alarm no longer works and nothing alerted security. Great for us. But bad for the place. Kids have trashed the place hard.
Post explore we drive off and pulled in down the road to harass an armadillo (it was on from Wish and didn’t entertain us). Then we noticed a police helicopter circling the hotel. So we timed that well!
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But also no one can be bothered to buy listed buildings, especially after so much neglect: effort and money. It would not surprise me if it set on fire, but I doubt it would be an insurance job - more likely kids this time. Just seeing like 10 of these kids scurrying around trashing it, it just gives me a feeling it won’t bode well to the whole building.
