Pound, Lock Up and Fire Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1984. Pound, fire engine house. 2 related planning applications.
Pound, Lock Up and Fire Engine House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-cellar-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1984
- Type
- Pound, fire engine house
- Address
- Pound, Lock Up and Fire Engine House, Cage Hill, Swaffham Prior, CB25 0JS
- OS grid reference
- TL 570 641
- Coordinates
- 52.25315, 0.2989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a pound, lock-up, and fire engine house, dating to around 1830. It is a single-story brick building with a gabled slate roof and end parapets set on kneelers. The front parapet, above the lock-up, has three stone crosses. The front gable has two oval-shaped windows with grilles, one serving each cell, positioned above the lock-up doorway. The original door to the lock-up retains its iron fittings. The other gable end also has similar oval-shaped windows, and the entrance to the fire engine house is in the side wall. That door is original but with fewer iron fittings. The lock-up and fire engine house are surrounded by a brick and clunch pound wall, which includes a gate on the street side. Internally, there are two barrel-vaulted cells. The fire engine house still contains the original fire engine, inscribed with “Bristow fecit” and “the gift of Mrs Allix...1791”.
Local climate
Pound, Lock Up and Fire Engine House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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