24, Sun Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1951. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.
24, Sun Street
- WRENN ID
- dark-transept-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1951
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 24, Sun Street, SG5 1AH
- OS grid reference
- TL 183 289
- Coordinates
- 51.94645, -0.27901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
24 Sun Street is an early 19th-century building constructed of colour-washed brick, topped with a Welsh slated roof and featuring a wide cornice. The structure stands three storeys tall, with a band at the second floor. The upper floors are adorned with three sash windows that have glazing bars, set within reveals and topped by flat arches. The building has a 19th-century shop front, and to the left, there is an arched recessed porch supported by fluted Roman Ionic half columns, with a fielded panelled reveal and a traceried fanlight. The lead rainwater heads are dated 1833. This property is part of a group that includes Nos 13 to 34, which are consecutive.
Local climate
24, Sun Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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