The Cage Village Lock Up

THE CAGE, SCHOOL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1330629
Date first listed:
28-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:
The Cage Village Lock Up
Statutory Address:
THE CAGE, SCHOOL LANE
Door entrance to jail
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1330629
Date first listed:
28-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:
The Cage Village Lock Up
Statutory Address 1:
THE CAGE, SCHOOL LANE
Statutory Address 2:
VILLAGE LOCK UP, SCHOOL LANE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE CAGE, SCHOOL LANE
Statutory Address:
VILLAGE LOCK UP, SCHOOL LANE

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:
St. Neots
National Grid Reference:
TL 17057 58806

Details

1. EATON SOCON 1590 SCHOOL LANE

Village Lock-Up (The Cage) TL 1758 5/2

II

2. Circa 1826, restored 1963. 1 storey. Red brick, patched upper part in gault brick. Tiled roof with brick gable coping and dentil eaves course. Pointed arched entrance with studded boarded door and wrought iron grill over. Stone plaque on west wall inscribed "The Eaton Socon Cage. This ancient lock-up was built in 1826 for the confinement of local malefactors. Restored in 1963 it is now in the care of the Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire Naturalists Trust.

Listing NGR: TL1705758806

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Legacy System number:
53325
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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