THE CAGE ON THE POND

THE CAGE ON THE POND, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1175473
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: THE CAGE ON THE POND
Statutory Address:: THE CAGE ON THE POND, LONDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1175473
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:: THE CAGE ON THE POND
Statutory Address 1:: THE CAGE ON THE POND, LONDON ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE CAGE ON THE POND, LONDON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Hertsmere (District Authority)
Parish:: Shenley
National Grid Reference:: TL 18872 00732

Details

TL 10 SE SHENLEY LONDON ROAD (Northeast side) Shenley

3/272 The Cage on The Pond 25.2.52 (Formerly listed as The Cage,Shenley)

- II

Lock-up. C18, repaired 1810, restored 1893. Cement rendered brick. Circular with domical top. Pointed head to timber door of 4 planks with strap hinges. Flanking small openings with iron bars in deep reveals. Above openings 2 stone tablets inscribed with date 1810 and 'DO WELL. AND FEAR NOT.'/'BE SOBER. BE VIGILANT'. Additional small opening at rear. Plinth. Band at cornice level. Ball finial on top. (Pevsner 1977: VCH 1923).

Listing NGR: TL1887200732

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 164327
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1923)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.