Sun House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1952. House.
Sun House
- WRENN ID
- tangled-brass-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sun House, 4, Sun Street, Potton
- OS grid reference
- TL 222 491
- Coordinates
- 52.12732, -0.21502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sun House is a house that was formerly known as the Sun Inn. It dates back to the 16th century and has undergone later alterations. The building features a timber-framed structure covered in colourwashed render, with some areas of closely studded framing visible on the cross-wing. The roof is made of clay tiles.
The house is two stories high and has a cross-wing on the right-hand side, with a projecting gable at the rear. The main block has two 2-light casement windows on each floor, with the ground floor windows flanking a doorway that has a panelled door and a bracketed pediment hood. To the left, there is a carriage entrance with timber doors that have elaborate openwork upper sections.
The right-hand gable jetties at the first floor level, supported by curved braces to the exposed framing. The ground floor features a canted bay window with 20th-century replacement casements, while the first floor has a sash window with glazing bars. There are two rebuilt brick chimney stacks, one located on the side elevation of the cross-wing and the other positioned midway up the roof slope of the main block.
Local climate
Sun House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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