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

8, Sun Street

WRENN ID
waiting-minaret-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 April 1951
Type
House
OS grid reference
TL 184 289
Coordinates
51.94627, -0.27864
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 8 Sun Street is an 18th-century plastered building with two storeys, topped by a steep slate roof. It features a carriageway at the southern end and has five windows. The ground floor includes a shop window, while the central window on the upper floor has an ogee head with interlacing glazing bars. The doorcase, which is a simple later 18th-century addition, is pedimented and pilastered, with reveals of fielded panelling that enclose a door made up of three panels, including a square central panel flanked by long panels at the top and bottom. Notably, the ogee arched central window was formerly a doorway. Nos. 4 to 11 Sun Street form a group with this building.

Local climate

8, 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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