Sawston Village College

TL 4849 9/355

SAWSTON NEW ROAD (North Side) Sawston Village College

GV II

Village College. 1930. Architect H.H. Dunn from design by Henry Morris, Chief Education Officer for Cambridge. The first college of its kind to be built. Neo-Georgian style. Yellow bricks with darker plum brick plinth, and chimney stacks, red pantiled gable and hipped roofs. Symmetrical plan enclosing an open courtyard to east. Central hall block of four 'bays' with two advanced hipped roofed porches each with double six-panelled doors folded into lobby with round arched fanlights with patterned glazing bars open pediment and plastered doorcases. Linked by enclosed arcaded wings to north and south ranges. North classroom range, twelve 'bays' with tall twenty-eight paned hung sash windows with gauged brick arches and exaggerated key blocks, south range with twelve 'bay' arcade grouped in three's leading to public library pedimented and terminating the range. Interior: Details plain and functional with walnut plywood panelling and some original furniture. V.C.H., Vol. VI. Pevsner: Buildings of England

Listing NGR: TL4822149783