Cage House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House. 3 related planning applications.
Cage House
- WRENN ID
- rusted-arch-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TL 6730 GREAT BARDFIELD BRIDGE STREET (west side)
8/139 Cage House (formerly 21.12.67 listed as Woodpeckers)
GV II
Wrongly shown on O.S. map as Woodpeckers. House. Early C17, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing E, with axial stack in second bay from right end. Short extension and C18/C19 stack at left end. Single-storey lean-to extension at right end. C17 stair tower to rear of stack (stair removed) enclosed by rear extension, c.1950. 2 storeys. 4-window range of C20 casements. C20 gabled porch. Grouped diagonal shafts on main stack. The interior has jowled posts, straight braces trenched inside studs, one chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, chamfered axial beam with exposed thin joists in left bay. Face-halved and bladed scarfs in wallplates. 2 large wood-burning hearths. Introduced doorhead from an earlier building alongside main stack. RCHM 35.
Listing NGR: TL6757630680
Detailed Attributes
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