The Cage Village Lock Up is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Village lock-up. 1 related planning application.
The Cage Village Lock Up
- WRENN ID
- rough-garret-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1974
- Type
- Village lock-up
- Address
- The Cage Village Lock Up, School Lane, St. Neots, PE19 8GW
- OS grid reference
- TL 170 588
- Coordinates
- 52.21506, -0.28805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cage Village Lock-Up, located on School Lane in Eaton Socon, was built around 1826 and restored in 1963. This single-storey structure is made of red brick, with the upper part patched in gault brick. It features a tiled roof with brick gable coping and a dentil eaves course. The entrance is pointed arched, with a studded boarded door and a wrought iron grill over it. On the west wall, there is a stone plaque that reads, "The Eaton Socon Cage. This ancient lock-up was built in 1826 for the confinement of local malefactors. Restored in 1963 it is now in the care of the Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire Naturalists Trust."
Local climate
The Cage Village Lock Up sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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 0.4°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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