The Bird Cage is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1974. House.

The Bird Cage

WRENN ID
broken-baluster-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
New Forest
Constituency
New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1974
Type
House
Address
The Bird Cage, Quay Street, Lymington and Pennington, SO41 3AS
OS grid reference
SZ 327 955
Coordinates
50.75904, -1.53723
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bird Cage is a late 17th century to early 18th century house located on the west side of Quay Street. It features a stuccoed facade and a steeply pitched tiled roof with large coped gable ends. There is a band at the first floor height, and the building has two storeys with dormers. It has two unbarred sash windows and an interesting 19th century shop front that includes carved heads of glazing bars, which are intact. There is also an additional ground floor window with modern glazing. The Bird Cage, along with Nos 1 to 6 (consecutive) and Quay Stores, forms a group with a band of paving on the east side of Quay Street.

Local climate

The Bird Cage receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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