The Cage Immediately South West of Number 7 is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 December 1959. Lock-up.
The Cage Immediately South West of Number 7
- WRENN ID
- third-hinge-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 December 1959
- Type
- Lock-up
- Address
- The Cage Immediately South West of Number 7, Church Street, Tollesbury
- OS grid reference
- TL 956 104
- Coordinates
- 51.75811, 0.83305
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cage, located immediately southwest of number 7 on Church Street in Tollesbury, is a lock-up building from the 18th century that underwent alterations in the 20th century. It features a timber frame covered with 20th-century waney weatherboarding and is topped with a roof made of handmade red clay plain tiles and 20th-century hip tiles. The structure is square in shape and has a plain boarded door on the west side, equipped with two long hasped iron hinges and a double iron grill. A metal plate on the building is inscribed with 'Village lock-up or cage, A.D. 1700'. The roof is pyramidal and topped with an acorn finial.
Local climate
The Cage Immediately South West of Number 7 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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