The Old Sun Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 1971. Inn. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Sun Inn
- WRENN ID
- vacant-turret-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1971
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Old Sun Inn, Great North Road, St. Neots, PE19 8EQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 169 589
- Coordinates
- 52.21662, -0.2896
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Sun Inn is a building dating from 1590, located on the west side of the Great North Road in Eaton Socon. It has been altered in the 17th century and features colour-washed plaster and an old tile roof. The structure has two storeys and includes two gabled back wings. On the first floor, there are three casement windows, while the ground floor has two 19th-century splayed bay windows with slate roofs. The doorways are architraved and have carved bracketed hoods. The roof is constructed with collared rafters.
Local climate
The Old Sun Inn 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 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 0.4°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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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