The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has granted grade II-listed status to a thirteenth cabmen’s shelter in the capital – meaning all surviving bright green refuges now have protection.

The wooden huts were built by the Cabmen’s Shelter Fund as much-needed rest stops for licenced cab drivers, at a time when cabs were all horse-drawn.

The first cabmen’s shelter in the capital was built in 1875. Government heritage adviser Historic England said that 61 shelters were known to have been built by 1950.

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