The Sun Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. A C17 Public house. 2 related planning applications.

The Sun Public House

WRENN ID
frozen-cloister-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Welwyn Hatfield
Constituency
Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1983
Type
Public house
Address
The Sun Public House, Northaw Road West, Northaw and Cuffley, EN6 4NL
OS grid reference
TL 278 023
Coordinates
51.70507, -0.15145
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Sun Public House is a 17th-century timber-framed inn shaped like an L, which was extended at both ends in the late 18th or early 19th century. The building was refronted around 1900 and features painted brick and roughcast. It has a steep pitched plain tile roof with terracotta ridge tiles and flush sash windows. The front of the building includes three eaves gables above the first-floor windows and a four-window extension on the ground floor. The left-hand extension is weatherboarded and has a broad roof that is half hipped on the west gable end. Inside, there are brick and timber frame partitions. The east elevation showcases the 17th-century right-hand block with two windows, a plinth, a floor band, and a hipped plain tile roof. The weatherboarded addition on the right end, dating from the early 19th century, features a small-pane twin casement and a pantile roof.

Local climate

The Sun Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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