Cages Farmhouse

Cages Farmhouse is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century. It is two storeys tall and has a three-cell lobby entrance plan. The building is timber-framed and has roughcast rendered panels. The roof is covered with asbestos slates and features axial and gable chimneys made of red brick. The windows are mid-20th century casements with three lights. There is a panelled entrance door and a 20th-century cabled timber-framed porch. Inside, there are back-to-back open fireplaces in the hall and parlour. This house is an unusual example of a single-build structure with a rectangular plan, featuring a higher eaves line at the parlour end to create a parlour chamber with full headroom. The roof structure was replaced and the eaves were raised in the mid-20th century. A diamond mullioned window has been exposed, and there is evidence of additional mullioned windows that once existed.