Village Lock-Up in Garden of Number 20 is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. Lock-up.
Village Lock-Up in Garden of Number 20
- WRENN ID
- narrow-quartz-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- Lock-up
- Address
- Village Lock-Up in Garden of Number 20, Hodwell, Ashwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 268 397
- Coordinates
- 52.04185, -0.15121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The village lock-up, also known as a cage, is located in the garden of number 20 in Ashwell. It dates from the early to mid-19th century and is a small square building constructed with clunch walls and topped with a slate pyramid roof. The west elevation features an original studded plank door set in an oak frame, with a barred iron grill positioned above it. The building also has flat wooden eaves.
Local climate
Village Lock-Up in Garden of Number 20 sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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