The Sun House is a Grade II listed building in the Hillingdon local planning authority area, England. A C16 House.
The Sun House
- WRENN ID
- burning-ashlar-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hillingdon
- Constituency
- Hayes and Harlington MP: John McDonnell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Sun House, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 057 777
- Coordinates
- 51.48898, -0.47874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sun House is a 16th-century timber-framed house with a brick facade that has been colourwashed. It stands two storeys high and features four windows, with 19th-century casements on the first floor and sash windows on the ground floor. The ground floor includes two 19th-century bays that have a continuous tiled hood above them. The house has an old tiled roof with sprocketed eaves. The Sun House, along with Tower House, the Vicarage, and the Five Bells Inn, forms a group of buildings of historical significance.
Local climate
The Sun House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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