2, Sun Street is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. House.

2, Sun Street

WRENN ID
guardian-cinder-clover
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Canterbury
Constituency
Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
2, Sun Street, CT1 2JQ
OS grid reference
TR 149 579
Coordinates
51.27982, 1.0807
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 2 Sun Street is a building with an 18th-century exterior that has an altered medieval interior. It stands three storeys tall and is constructed of painted brick, featuring quoins and a moulded stone eaves cornice. The building has three 19th-century sash windows, while the first floor has altered sashes and a late 19th-century shop front. Nos. 1 to 9 Sun Street are part of a group.

Local climate

2, Sun Street 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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