The Sun Public House is a Grade II* listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. A No explicit period mentioned Public house. 4 related planning applications.
The Sun Public House
- WRENN ID
- tattered-thatch-onyx
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1952
- Type
- Public house
- Period
- No explicit period mentioned
- Address
- The Sun Public House, High Street, Dedham, CO7 6DE
- OS grid reference
- TM 056 331
- Coordinates
- 51.95893, 0.99229
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sun Public House is a building that dates back to the 14th century and later, featuring a timber frame and plastered exterior with ridged, gabled, and hipped roofs covered in peg tiles. The building has a complex L-shaped plan and includes two red brick chimneys topped with modern materials. The ridge height is interrupted on the east side, where there are two bays with a full-height carriage arch leading to the rear yard.
The western range has a parapet with a dentilled wooden cornice, and the first storey is supported by an underbuilt jetty, which is now painted brick. A semi-hexagonal bow window is located in the third bay of the range, featuring three small-paned sashes, including the bow window itself. There are also two pedimented doorcases in the second and fifth bays, followed by an archway and a pair of small-paned sashes in exposed boxes. The first storey has modern casements, except for the bow window, and two sliding sashes to the right of the archway.
At the rear (west), there is an Elizabethan stair tower with rich detailing and a jettied gable supported on brackets. The stairs are located externally under a pentice and are also covered in peg tiles. Inside, two construction phases are visible: one to the west with a bay and a chimney bay that lacks a chimney, and to the east, a tall one-bay structure with a former frontal long-wall jetty supported by finely wrought joists that are richly moulded and soffit-tenoned.
Local climate
The Sun Public 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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