White Lion Inn
WHITE LION INN, 96, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128035
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- White Lion Inn
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE LION INN, 96, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128035
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- White Lion Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE LION INN, 96, HIGH 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:
- WHITE LION INN, 96, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sawston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 48594 49131
Details
TL 4849 SAWSTON HIGH STREET (West Side) 9/272 No. 96 (White Lion 22.11.67 Inn) (formerly listed as No 116) GV II Inn. Early C17 altered in C18 and later with early C19 additions. Timber-framed and plastered. Brick plinth. Slated roofs. Two storey central block with one storey and attic cross wing to left hand and two storey additions to right hand with hipped roof. Four chimney stacks and one end stack to right hand of main range reduced. East elevation; main entrance with pilastered wooden doorcase, high canopy on shaped brackets and half-glazed door. Four ground floor twelve-paned hung sash windows and four similar first floor and one attic window. Interior: Exposed stop-chamfered ceiling beams. White Lion Inn open by 1757. R.C.H.M. Report 1951 V.C.H., Vol. VI, p249 Teversham. History of Sawston
Listing NGR: TL4859449131
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53084
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 249
Teversham, , History of Sawston, ()
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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