1, Sun Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
1, Sun Street
- WRENN ID
- upper-vault-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, Sun Street, SG7 6QA
- OS grid reference
- TL 244 339
- Coordinates
- 51.98994, -0.18918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th or early 19th century building on Sun Street, part of a group of buildings that also extend to Church Street. The exterior is colour-washed roughcast on brick, topped with an old tiled roof featuring a corbelled cornice and two box dormers. The building is two storeys high, with an additional attic level. The Church Street facade has two flush sash windows. The Sun Street elevation reveals one first-floor sash window with glazing bars, along with a 19th-century shop window at ground level. It forms a group with numbers 3, 3A, 5, and 7 on Sun Street.
Local climate
1, Sun Street 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 6 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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