Crown And Woolpack And Woodpack Farmhouse Adjoining South Side

The Crown and Woolpack public house and adjoining Woolpack Farmhouse date possibly to 1791 and are located on the Great North Road in Conington. The building’s group value lies in its historical significance as a coaching inn. It is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond, with a steeply pitched roof of Collyweston stone slates and parapetted gable ends on kneelers. Red brick stacks are present.

The main building has a half-H shaped plan. The central range is two storeys and has an attic. It features two hipped dormers, two 18th-century 16-pane hung sashes flanking a central gabled pediment with a restored bulls-eye window containing raised keyblocks. The exterior has open boxing and segmental arches. The symmetrical first floor window arrangement features three 19th-century hung sashes in the gabled centred bay, and two similar outer windows, one of which has twelve-pane glazing bars. On the ground floor, a central bay window and a doorway, formerly on the north side, have been removed and replaced with a tripartite hung sash and flanked by three hung sashes, including two with twelve-pane glazing bars. A south crosswing also has two storeys and an attic, with a projecting side stack on the south side, a hipped dormer to the north pitch, and a gable end with an original bulls-eye pivot window with raised keyblocks. A segmental arch frames a 19th-century hung sash with a central glazing bar above a late 19th-century red brick bay window. In the north wall, some window openings have been remade and recessed in the 19th century, including a formerly shouldered doorway architrave which is now recessed. A late 19th-century red brick porch is located on the south side. Indications of earlier alterations are seen in disturbed brickwork.

A north wing, with a lower-pitched Collyweston stone slate roof, is rendered in cement. It has one two-light hung sash in a segmental arch at the first floor above a ground floor tripartite hung sash with glazing bars. Modern windows are present in the side elevations, within original openings. The gable end features a bulls-eye window opening. The interior has been stripped of original features. A note in the S. Inskipp Ladds Collection, held at the Norris Museum, St Ives, copied from the diaries of John Bing, 5th Viscount Torrington, records that the inn was built in 1791. The site is associated with the highwayman Dick Turpin (d.1739).