Sawston Village College

Sawston Village College is a village college built in 1930, designed by architect H.H. Dunn based on a concept by Henry Morris, the Chief Education Officer for Cambridge. It was the first college of its kind to be constructed and is designed in a Neo-Georgian style. The building features yellow bricks with a darker plum brick plinth and chimney stacks, along with red pantiled gable and hipped roofs.

The college has a symmetrical layout that encloses an open courtyard to the east. The central hall block consists of four 'bays' and includes two prominent hipped-roof porches, each featuring double six-panelled doors that fold into a lobby with round-arched fanlights adorned with patterned glazing bars, open pediments, and plastered doorcases. The central hall is connected to the north and south classroom ranges by enclosed arcaded wings.

The north classroom range has twelve 'bays' with tall twenty-eight paned hung sash windows that are topped with gauged brick arches and exaggerated key blocks, while the south range also has twelve 'bays' with an arcade grouped in threes, leading to a public library that features a pediment and terminates the range.

Inside, the details are plain and functional, featuring walnut plywood panelling and some original furniture.