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
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1977
Type
Lockup
Source
Historic England listing

Description

TL 3629 7/79

BUNTINGFORD CHURCH STREET (south side) The Cage or Lockup

12.1.77

GV II

Town lockup. Early C18, walltop and roof renewed in mid C19. Red brick in English-bond, top of wall in Flemish-bond with toothed corbelled top, dark weatherboarding to gable triangles, and boarded roof covered in sheet iron. A small square building near the bridge over the River Rib, about 3m x 3m, orientated N-S with central door on S. Recessed battened and framed door with decorative iron hinges hung on iron pins from heavy frame under timber lintol. Shaped ends to wallplates and purlins projecting at each end. Of special historic interest as a local antiquity. (VCH (1914) 79).

Listing NGR: TL3633929623

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