The Cage or Lockup is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1977. Lockup.
The Cage or Lockup
- WRENN ID
- ancient-rubblework-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1977
- Type
- Lockup
- Address
- The Cage or Lockup, Church Street, Buntingford
- OS grid reference
- TL 363 296
- Coordinates
- 51.9484, -0.01764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cage or Lockup is a town lockup built in the early 18th century, with its walltop and roof renewed in the mid 19th century. It is constructed of red brick in English bond, with the top of the wall in Flemish bond featuring a toothed corbelled top. The gable triangles are covered with dark weatherboarding, and the boarded roof is covered in sheet iron. This small square building measures about 3 meters by 3 meters and is oriented north-south, with a central door on the south side. The door is recessed, battened, and framed, with decorative iron hinges hung on iron pins from a heavy frame beneath a timber lintel. The wallplates and purlins have shaped ends that project at each end. This structure is of special historic interest as a local antiquity.
Local climate
The Cage or Lockup sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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