The Sun Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1949. Hotel. 3 related planning applications.
The Sun Hotel
- WRENN ID
- secret-vestry-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1949
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Sun Hotel, 7 and 8, Sun Street, CT1 2HX
- OS grid reference
- TR 149 578
- Coordinates
- 51.27946, 1.08076
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sun Hotel, located at 7 and 8 Sun Street, is a timber-framed building that dates back to 1503. It has been plastered over and features two storeys with a restored tiled roof and stone coping. The front has three sash windows with intact glazing bars and an overhang. On the ground floor, there are two canted bay windows, one of which has a panelled riser. The entrance includes a doorcase with a rectangular fanlight. The hotel is part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 9 Sun Street.
Local climate
The Sun Hotel 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 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- 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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