Sun House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1967. Public house, private house. 1 related planning application.
Sun House
- WRENN ID
- silent-chancel-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Penrith and Solway MP: Markus Campbell-Savours (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1967
- Type
- Public house, private house
- Address
- Sun House, Caldbeck, Cumberland, CA7 8JG
- OS grid reference
- NY 340 385
- Coordinates
- 54.738, -3.02608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sun House is a public house formerly known as the Sun Inn, now a private house. It likely dates from the late 17th century, with an extension added in the late 18th century. The building features whitewashed stone walls, while the extension has V-jointed quoins. The roof is made of graduated greenslate and includes a squat rendered chimney stack along with a 20th-century brick chimney stack.
The structure is two stories high and has three bays, with a right-angled single-bay extension on the front right. The entrance consists of a six-panel top-glazed door set within a painted stone architrave. The windows are Yorkshire sash style, some with glazing bars, and there is a smaller sash window on the staircase, all framed in painted architraves that show traces of removed mullions. The extension features broad sash windows, with the upper floor window having glazing bars, all in painted stone surrounds.
Local climate
Sun House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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