The Great Bardfield Cage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. Lock-up.
The Great Bardfield Cage
- WRENN ID
- graven-belfry-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Lock-up
- Address
- The Great Bardfield Cage, Bridge Street, CM7 4ST
- OS grid reference
- TL 675 306
- Coordinates
- 51.94932, 0.43715
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great Bardfield Cage is a lock-up built in the early 19th century, specifically in 1816. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring some blue headers, and includes flint rubble. The gables are weatherboarded, and the roof is made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has a rectangular plan and contains two cells.
On the eastern elevation, there is one window with an external wooden shutter, a heavy oak door with iron studs that highlight the date 1816, a small barred window, and long hasped hinges. Inside, there is a second door that has 10 holes, which do not align with the window of the outer door, along with bolts. On the southern side, there is a simple wooden door leading to the other cell. The roof has been rebuilt. The lock-up was constructed in response to the Six Acts and was reported to have been last used in 1925.
Local climate
The Great Bardfield Cage 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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