Pound, Lock Up and Fire Engine House
POUND, LOCK UP AND FIRE ENGINE HOUSE, CAGE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127069
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Pound, Lock Up and Fire Engine House
- Statutory Address:
- POUND, LOCK UP AND FIRE ENGINE HOUSE, CAGE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127069
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Pound, Lock Up and Fire Engine House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POUND, LOCK UP AND FIRE ENGINE HOUSE, CAGE HILL
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:
- POUND, LOCK UP AND FIRE ENGINE HOUSE, CAGE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swaffham Prior
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 57018 64152
Details
TL 5764 SWAFFHAM PRIOR CAGE HILL
13/148 Pound, lock-up and fire engine house GV II
Pound, lock-up and fire engine house, c1830. Lock-up and fire engine house in single storey gault brick building with a gabled, slate roof and end parapets on kneelers. The parapet to the front, above the lock-up, is surmounted by three crosses of stone. The gable end to the front has two oval shaped windows with grilles, one to each cell, above the lock-up doorway. The door is original and has its iron fittings complete. The other gable end also has similar oval shaped windows but the entry to the engine house is in the side wall. The door is original but has fewer iron fittings. The lock-up and fire engine house are enclosed by the pound wall of brick and clunch with a gate on the street side. Inside there are two cells each barrel vaulted. The fire engine house retains the original fire engine inscribed "Bristow fecit" and "the gift of Mrs Allix...1791".
R.C.H.M. (North East Cambs.), p127, mon (30)
Listing NGR: TL5701864152
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49369
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire North East, (1972)
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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