Cage House

Cage House is an early 17th-century house that has been altered in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The house has four bays facing east and features an axial stack located in the second bay from the right end. There is a short extension and an 18th or 19th-century stack at the left end, along with a single-storey lean-to extension at the right end. At the rear of the stack, there is a 17th-century stair tower, although the stair has been removed and the tower is enclosed by a rear extension built around 1950. The house is two storeys high and has a four-window range of 20th-century casements, as well as a 20th-century gabled porch. The main stack has grouped diagonal shafts. Inside, the house features jowled posts, straight braces that are trenched inside the studs, one chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, and a chamfered axial beam with exposed thin joists in the left bay. The wallplates have face-halved and bladed scarfs, and there are two large wood-burning hearths. Additionally, there is an introduced doorhead from an earlier building next to the main stack.