The Black Bull Inn is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Inn. 2 related planning applications.

The Black Bull Inn

WRENN ID
inner-cellar-yew
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
The Black Bull Inn, 98, High Street, Sawston
OS grid reference
TL 485 491
Coordinates
52.12035, 0.16877
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Black Bull Inn is an inn that dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with alterations and additions made in the 18th century. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure, with some original 18th-century pargetted panels, and a painted brick and plastered plinth. The roof is plain tiled and half hipped to the south of the main range. There is a gault brick ridge stack, a side stack to the north, and an end stack to the south.

The main range is one storey and has an attic, while there is a two-storey north cross wing, an 18th-century two-storey rear extension, and a single-storey extension at the south gable end. The building has three entrances, each with 19th-century panelled and glazed doors, and hoods supported on brackets. There are two canted hung sash bay windows, one horizontal sliding sash window, and one six-paned hung sash window. The first floor has a similar window, along with two gabled casement dormer windows. An iron bracket for an inn sign, possibly from the 18th century, is also present.

Inside, there is an altered open fireplace and chamfered ceiling beams. The Black Bull was open in 1607.

Local climate

The Black Bull 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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