White Lion Inn is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Inn. 3 related planning applications.
White Lion Inn
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-spindle-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- White Lion Inn, 96, High Street, Sawston, CB22 3HJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 485 491
- Coordinates
- 52.12054, 0.16901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Lion Inn is an inn dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century and early 19th century additions. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure, with a brick plinth and slated roofs. The building has a two-storey central block, a one-storey and attic cross wing to the left, and two-storey additions to the right with a hipped roof. There are four chimney stacks and one end stack on the right side of the main range, which has been reduced.
On the east elevation, the main entrance is marked by a pilastered wooden doorcase, a high canopy supported by shaped brackets, and a half-glazed door. The ground floor has four twelve-paned hung sash windows, with four similar windows on the first floor and one in the attic. Inside, there are exposed stop-chamfered ceiling beams. The White Lion Inn was open by 1757.
Local climate
White Lion Inn 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- 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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