The Woolpack Public House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Woolpack Public House
- WRENN ID
- kindled-railing-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Woolpack Public House, 70, High Street, Sawston, CB22 3HJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 486 492
- Coordinates
- 52.12188, 0.16962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Woolpack Public House is a house with a first-floor hall that has been converted into a public house. It dates back to the early 16th century, with later alterations and extensions, and was refronted around 1937. The building features a timber frame that is cased in painted gault brick. It has a 20th-century plain tiled roof, along with older plain tile and slated roofs at the rear. There is a gault brick ridge stack and a side stack on the left, with lower courses made of 18th-century brick. The building has a painted brick plinth and consists of two storeys and a cellar.
The main range has lower cross wings, with the first-floor hall located in the main range. The entrance is situated to the left of the centre and features a four-panelled glazed door. To the right, there is a bay window, along with two ground floor and three first floor transomed casement windows that share similar details.
Inside, there is a substantial timber frame with moulded cross beams in the central room, which has two bays. The upper hall features cranked braces connecting the posts to a raised tie beam. The cross wings have crown post roofs, with a surviving square-sectioned crown post in the north cross wing that has roll mouldings at the base and cap, along with braces to the collar purlins and collar. The upper hall may have originally been used for storage or as a trading hall.
Local climate
The Woolpack Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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