The Sun Tavern Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1973. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
The Sun Tavern Public House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-bracket-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1973
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Sun Tavern Public House, 66, Long Acre Wc2, City of Westminster, WC2E 9JH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 811
- Coordinates
- 51.514, -0.12266
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sun Tavern Public House is a terraced building dating from around 1860 to 1870, located on Long Acre in the City of Westminster. It features a stucco exterior and a slate roof, showcasing an eclectic Italianate style. The building stands four storeys high and is two windows wide.
On the ground floor, there are panelled and glazed doors on either side of broad semicircular arched bar windows, arranged in a Venetian style with dividing piers and enriched oculi above the doors. The framing is decorated with ornamented pilasters that support consoles at the ends of the fascia, while the cornice above serves as the sill course for the first floor.
The first floor has sash windows set in eaved architraves with segmental heads, with the central window featuring a mask and pendant. The second floor windows are architraved with cornices, and the central window is topped with a pediment. A dentil cornice with paired terminal consoles is located beneath the attic storey, which includes semicircular arched architraved windows. The building is further enhanced by panelled quoin pilasters and a crowning moulded cornice with a blocking course raised over the central section.
Local climate
The Sun Tavern Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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