Sawston Village College
SAWSTON VILLAGE COLLEGE, NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128038
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sawston Village College
- Statutory Address:
- SAWSTON VILLAGE COLLEGE, NEW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1128038
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sawston Village College
- Statutory Address 1:
- SAWSTON VILLAGE COLLEGE, NEW ROAD
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:
- SAWSTON VILLAGE COLLEGE, NEW ROAD
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:
- TL4822149783
Details
TL 4849
9/355
SAWSTON
NEW ROAD
(North Side)
Sawston Village College
GV
II
Village College. 1930. Architect H.H. Dunn from design by Henry Morris,
Chief Education Officer for Cambridge. The first college of its kind to be
built. Neo-Georgian style. Yellow bricks with darker plum brick plinth, and
chimney stacks, red pantiled gable and hipped roofs. Symmetrical plan
enclosing an open courtyard to east. Central hall block of four 'bays' with
two advanced hipped roofed porches each with double six-panelled doors folded
into lobby with round arched fanlights with patterned glazing bars open
pediment and plastered doorcases. Linked by enclosed arcaded wings to north
and south ranges. North classroom range, twelve 'bays' with tall
twenty-eight paned hung sash windows with gauged brick arches and exaggerated
key blocks, south range with twelve 'bay' arcade grouped in three's leading
to public library pedimented and terminating the range. Interior: Details
plain and functional with walnut plywood panelling and some original
furniture.
V.C.H., Vol. VI.
Pevsner: Buildings of England
Listing NGR: TL4822149783
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53092
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954)
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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