16 and 17, Sun Street is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1967. Houses.
16 and 17, Sun Street
- WRENN ID
- winding-porch-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1967
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- 16 and 17, Sun Street, CT1 2HX
- OS grid reference
- TR 149 578
- Coordinates
- 51.27943, 1.08099
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 16 and 17 on Sun Street are late 18th century or early 19th century buildings that stand three storeys tall and are constructed of painted brick. They feature two sash windows with intact glazing bars, which are set within moulded architraves. The first floor has two 18th century three-light bow windows. There is a wrought iron shop sign bracket, and the shop fronts were added in the later 19th century. These buildings are part of a group that includes Nos 14 to 24 and Nos 50 to 61 on Palace Street.
Local climate
16 and 17, 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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