18, Sun Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1974. House.
18, Sun Street
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-entrance-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1974
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TL 183 289
- Coordinates
- 51.94619, -0.27887
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 18 Sun Street is a building dating from the 16th or early 17th century. It features an exposed timber frame in the gable facing the street and corbels supporting the overhanging first floor. The building has a steeply pitched tiled roof and consists of two storeys. The ground floor includes a shop window, while the first floor has a modern triple light lattice casement window. Nos. 13 to 34 Sun Street form a group.
Local climate
18, 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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