Listing Text

TL 4849 SAWSTON HIGH STREET
(West Side)
9/268 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: TL4862349276