27 and 28, Sun Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1951. Commercial.

27 and 28, Sun Street

WRENN ID
over-lime-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 April 1951
Type
Commercial
OS grid reference
TL 183 289
Coordinates
51.94665, -0.27895
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

27 and 28 Sun Street is a building dating from around 1800, standing three stories tall and constructed of red brick. The roof is concealed by a parapet, and the facade features four windows set in shallow reveals. The ground floor of No 27 boasts an impressive shop front, featuring a large broad window with curving corners flanking a central door. Above this is a broad frieze suitable for lettering, topped by a very shallow hood. Just below the top window of No 27, there is a large label with raised letters stating 'PRINTING OFFICE'. No 28 has a simple canted bay window with a lightly moulded hood, and a door with six fielded panels beneath a simple fanlight and hood. The shop front of No 27, along with the adjacent doorway of No 28, is accented by a series of slender reeded panels, each ending in small roundels. Nos 13 to 34 Sun Street form a group.

Local climate

27 and 28, 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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