The Sun Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1959. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Sun Inn
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Colchester MP: Pam Cox (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1959
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Sun Inn, Maidenburgh Street, CO1 1TT
- OS grid reference
- TL 997 253
- Coordinates
- 51.89093, 0.90181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sun Inn is a probable 17th-century building situated between Maidenburgh Street and Ryegate Road. The west front, facing Maidenburgh Street, has been rebuilt using modern brick and includes a modern addition to the north. However, the original structure remains. To the rear, on Ryegate Road, is a gabled front with the ground floor faced in brick. The inn is two storeys high and has a timber-framed construction with plastered and weather-boarded elevations, covered by a tiled roof.
Local climate
The Sun Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2011
- 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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