5, Sun Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1951. Club. 5 related planning applications.
5, Sun Street
- WRENN ID
- empty-flint-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1951
- Type
- Club
- Address
- 5, Sun Street, SG5 1AE
- OS grid reference
- TL 184 289
- Coordinates
- 51.94651, -0.27854
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 5 Sun Street is a house, now functioning as a club, built around 1760. It features Flemish bond brickwork with red quoins and dressings, and has a half-hipped M-shaped roof covered with old tiles. The building has brick stacks at both ends and a lateral stack at the rear. It is designed in the mid-Georgian style, comprising two storeys and an attic, with a five-window range where three central bays are slightly projected. The entrance includes panelled double doors set in panelled reveals, topped by a pedimented doorcase with fluted pilasters and a dentilled cornice. Above the 12-pane sash windows are gauged flat brick arches. The building has a raised storey band, a bracketed wood cornice, and flat-roofed dormers. There is a late 19th-century brick extension with Welsh slate roofs at the rear.
Inside, the ground-floor room features an 18th-century plaster cornice and a decorative fanlight above an altered door leading to the rear. The stair hall at the back has a bracketed cornice and a fine open-well staircase with a ramped mahogany handrail, turned balusters on an open string, and foliate carved brackets. The first-floor room at the front has panelled soffits to the beams, panelled walls with a dentilled cornice, and two classical fireplaces with fluted friezes.
Local climate
5, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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