Ward's House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. House.
Ward's House
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ward's House, 95, High Street, Sawston
- OS grid reference
- TL 486 491
- Coordinates
- 52.12105, 0.16989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ward's House is a house located on High Street in Sawston, dating from the early 16th century, with an addition from the later 16th century. It was restored in 1885, as indicated by the date on the gable. The building is timber-framed with plaster infill, and it has a brick and stone plinth. The roofs are plain tiled. The rear stack and ridge stack, both with diagonal shafts, have been rebuilt.
The house has two storeys, featuring a two-bay cross wing and a two-bay hall range that jetties out towards the street. There is a lower single-storey extension to the cross wing, which is plastered with a brick plinth and a chimney wall. The street elevation shows some replacement timbers and applied timbers. The left side has a boarded door, and there are two horizontal sliding sash windows on both the ground floor and the first floor.
Inside, the house features crown-post roofs in both ranges, with crown-posts that have plain chamfers and mitre stops. These are braced to the collar purlin and tie beam in the cross wing, and to the collar purlin in the main range.
Local climate
Ward's 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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