The Woolpack Public House
THE WOOLPACK PUBLIC HOUSE, 70, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165299
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Woolpack Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE WOOLPACK PUBLIC HOUSE, 70, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/02802/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165299
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Woolpack Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WOOLPACK PUBLIC HOUSE, 70, 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:
- THE WOOLPACK PUBLIC HOUSE, 70, 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:
- TL4863149281
Details
TL 4849
9/268
SAWSTON
HIGH STREET
(West Side)
No. 70 (The Wool pack P.H.)
GV
II
House with first floor hall, now a public house. Early C16 with later
alterations and extensions refronted c.1937. Timber-frame cased in painted
gault brick. C20 plain tiled roof, old plain tile and slated rear roofs.
Gault brick ridge stack and side stack to left hand with lower courses of C18
brick. Painted brick plinth. Two storeys and cellar. Main range with lower
cross wings with first floor hall in main range. Entrance to left of centre
with four-panelled glazed door, bay window to right hand with similar details
to two ground floor and three first floor transomed casement windows.
Interior: Substantial timber-frame with moulded cross beams to central room
of two bays, upper hall with cranked braces from post to raised tie beam.
Crown post roofs to cross wings with surviving crown post in north cross wing
square sectioned with roll mouldings to base and cap and braces to collar
purlins and collar. The upper hall may have been used for storage or as a
trading hall.
R.C.H.M. Report 51
V.C.H., Vol. VI, p249
Listing NGR: TL4863149281
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 53080
- 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
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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