Queen's Head Inn is a Grade II* listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. A C15 Inn. 1 related planning application.

Queen's Head Inn

WRENN ID
sacred-stone-thistle
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
Queen's Head Inn, 90, High Street, Sawston, CB22 3HJ
OS grid reference
TL 486 491
Coordinates
52.12096, 0.16957
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Queen's Head Inn is a Grade II* listed inn located on High Street in Sawston. It dates from the late 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th century and 19th-century additions. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring some old plastered panels, and has a painted brick plinth. It has a plain tiled roof with a painted red brick stack on the left and a ridge stack to the right of the center. The inn is two storeys tall and includes part wine cellars.

The structure has a long curved range with a continuous jetty at two different levels, supported by curved solid brackets, with two closely set brackets that may indicate an original doorway. On the ground floor, there is a four-panelled door to the right, one hung sash window with side lights, one originally fixed light window with glazing bars, and one horizontal sliding sash window. The first floor features two horizontal sliding sash windows and one casement window.

Inside, the inn has exposed chamfered ceiling beams and a crown post roof with an octagonal post that has a moulded cap and base on cambered tie beams. The Queen's Head Inn opened around 1810.

Local climate

Queen's Head 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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