Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26458791

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  For the Record
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version