Sun Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1995. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
Sun Inn
- WRENN ID
- odd-rotunda-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1995
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Sun Inn, 63, Church Street, LA1 1LP
- OS grid reference
- SD 475 618
- Coordinates
- 54.04989, -2.80239
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sun Inn is a public house built in the late 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings on the front and side, while the rest is rendered rubble. The slate roof has a coped gable with kneelers on the left side. The building has a double-depth front block with a central doorway and a rear wing to the right. It stands three storeys above cellars and has three bays with raised plain quoins. All openings have raised plain surrounds. The central doorway has double doors of uncertain age with ten flush panels. The ground floor windows are sashed and lack glazing bars, while the first and second floors have twelve and nine panes respectively. The second floor's central bay features a glazed nine-pane blind window. The left-hand gable has a central doorway on the ground floor, with a window above it on each upper floor; the first-floor window is now blocked. Near the main block, the rear wing includes a tall staircase window. The Sun Inn was built as part of the redevelopment of the land behind the old Sun Inn in the 1790s, which also led to the creation of Sun Street.
Local climate
Sun Inn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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