Latitude: 51.9465 / 51°56'47"N
Longitude: -0.2786 / 0°16'42"W
OS Eastings: 518414
OS Northings: 228956
OS Grid: TL184289
Mapcode National: GBR H5W.VTC
Mapcode Global: VHGNS.4B3N
Plus Code: 9C3XWPWC+JH
Entry Name: 5, Sun Street
Listing Date: 13 April 1951
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1102140
English Heritage Legacy ID: 161532
ID on this website: 101102140
Location: Hitchin, North Hertfordshire, SG5
County: Hertfordshire
District: North Hertfordshire
Electoral Ward/Division: Hitchin Highbury
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Hitchin
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Hitchin
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Building
TL 1828 NW
2/42
SUN STREET (east side),
No 5
13.4.51
GV II
House, now club. Circa 1760. Flemish bond brick with red quoins and dressings;
half-hipped M-shaped old tile roof; brick end and rear lateral stacks. Double-
depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range, with 3
central bays brought forward. Panelled double doors set in panelled reveals
with Greek key soffit; pedimented doorcase has fluted pilasters with dentilled
cornice. Gauged flat brick arches over 12-pane sashes. Raised storey band;
bracketed wood cornice; flat-roofed dormers. Late C19 extension of brick with
Welsh slate roofs, to rear. Interior: ground-floor room has C18 plaster cornice
and decorative fanlight over altered door to rear; stair-hall to rear has
bracketed cornice and fine open-well staircase with ramped mahogany handrail,
turned balusters set on open string and foliate carved brackets. First-floor
room to front has panelled soffits to beams, panelled walls with dentilled
cornice and two classical fireplaces with flutes friezes.
Listing NGR: TL1841428956
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