The Great Bardfield Cage
THE GREAT BARDFIELD CAGE, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123505
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Great Bardfield Cage
- Statutory Address:
- THE GREAT BARDFIELD CAGE, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123505
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Great Bardfield Cage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GREAT BARDFIELD CAGE, BRIDGE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE GREAT BARDFIELD CAGE, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Bardfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67588 30674
Details
TL 6730 GREAT BARDFIELD BRIDGE STREET (west side)
8/140 The Great Bardfield Cage
GV II
Lock-up. Early C19. Red brick in Flemish bond, with some blue headers, and flint rubble. Gables weatherboarded. Roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Rectangular plan. 2 cells. E elevation, one window with external wooden shutter, heavy oak door with iron studs picking out the date 1816, a small barred window, and long hasped hinges. Inside this is a second door pierced with 10 holes, not coinciding with the window of the outer door, and bolts. On the S side there is a simple wooden door to the other cell. Roof rebuilt. Built 1816 in the context of the Six Acts, reported to have been last used in 1925.
Listing NGR: TL6758830674
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115279
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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