6, Sun Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1974. House. 3 related planning applications.
6, Sun Street
- WRENN ID
- seventh-gargoyle-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- 6, Sun Street, SG5 1AE
- OS grid reference
- TL 184 289
- Coordinates
- 51.94643, -0.27859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 6 on Sun Street is a 19th-century building made of yellow brick with stucco dressing, standing three storeys tall. It features a 19th-century shop front and a carriageway on the left side. The right side has rusticated yellow brick with a first-floor bend, and there is a four-panel door beneath a fanlight with ornamental glazing bars. On the first floor, there are two sash windows set between arched panels, each with architrave surrounds and entablatures, along with a canted oriel sash bay window on the left. The second floor has three windows that also feature similar arched panels and architrave surrounds. All windows, except for the canted bay, have glazing bars. This building is part of a group that includes numbers 4 to 11.
Local climate
6, 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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