Sun Houses, 4, 6 and 8, Highover Park is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. House. 9 related planning applications.
Sun Houses, 4, 6 and 8, Highover Park
- WRENN ID
- far-chimney-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sun Houses, 4, 6 and 8, Highover Park, Amersham, HP7 0BN
- OS grid reference
- SU 965 974
- Coordinates
- 51.66723, -0.60604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sun Houses at 4, 6, and 8 Highover Park are a group of reinforced concrete houses built in 1934 for Mr C de Peyer by Aymas D Connell of Connell and Ward. They were originally listed under Highover Drive. The properties were designed to be built against the hillside and are identical in layout to number 5 (not listed). Each house has two storeys and a roof canopy. Number 4 has a projecting bay on the right and a plain entrance door with a circular window alongside, and a full-height glazed wall to the staircase above. Number 6 features a glazed-in roof verandah, a modification that departs from the original architectural drawings. Horizontal steel casement windows are found throughout the houses. Number 4 has been extended to the right and at the rear.
Local climate
Sun Houses, 4, 6 and 8, Highover Park sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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