Cage Farmhouse

Cage Farmhouse is probably of the earlier 18th century, with remodelling in the later 19th century and recent alterations. It is a farmhouse with an attached joiner's workshop, constructed of roughly-coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, the rear being whitewashed. The roof is graduated slate, with stone slate lower courses at the rear and stone slate on the workshop section.

The building has a rectangular plan aligned on an east-west axis, facing south. The main house consists of two units and likely formerly had a continuous outshut to the rear, now appearing as a full double-depth design. The workshop is attached to the west end.

The exterior is symmetrical with two windows. The ground floor features a doorway sheltered by a late 19th-century pitched slate canopy with cusped barge-boarding and a glazed porch. There are two rectangular windows on each side of the doorway, now with double glazing. The upper floor mirrors this with two similar windows above the inner windows. The roof has oversailing eaves and verges and gable chimneys. The single-storey workshop to the left has two large windows with 16 panes fixed.

The rear of the house has a back door offset to the east, now under a glazed porch; a stair window is to the right of the door, with two oblong windows at ground floor and two rectangular windows above, all with double glazing.

Inside the house section, the left-hand part features two large, chamfered lateral beams (not of oak), and a fine 18th-century panelled partition to the parlour with fielded panels and a dado rail. The parlour also contains a lateral beam and full-height wainscot, with a round-headed alcove on the rear wall with fluted pilasters and a keyed moulded head. A lateral beam is present in the kitchen, located behind the parlour. A dog-legged staircase has a closed string, square newels, and turned balusters. On the first floor, a fielded panel partition divides the main chambers, incorporating built-in wardrobes with shouldered panels, similar to those at Badger Dub, Garsdale CP.