The Cage is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 1975. Commercial. 2 related planning applications.
The Cage
- WRENN ID
- noble-pedestal-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 1975
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- The Cage, 1, High Street, Dunster, Somerset, TA24 6SF
- OS grid reference
- SS 991 436
- Coordinates
- 51.18343, -3.44416
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cage, located on High Street in Dunster, is an early 19th-century building that also includes No 2 Church Street. It features a rendered exterior and a hipped slate roof, rising to two storeys. On the High Street side, there are two sash windows with glazing bars, and to the right, a recessed square-headed door. The building has an angled corner front with two additional sash windows and a central doorway beneath a slated pent roof. The Church Street side has a four-window return and a plain door on the left.
Local climate
The Cage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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