Latitude: 51.9466 / 51°56'47"N
Longitude: -0.279 / 0°16'44"W
OS Eastings: 518386
OS Northings: 228971
OS Grid: TL183289
Mapcode National: GBR H5W.VPG
Mapcode Global: VHGNS.3BWK
Plus Code: 9C3XWPWC+MC
Entry Name: 27 and 28, Sun Street
Listing Date: 13 April 1951
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1173708
English Heritage Legacy ID: 161545
ID on this website: 101173708
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
1.
5255 SUN STREET
(West Side)
Nos 27 & 28
TL1828 NW 2/43
II 13.4.51.
GV
2.
Circa l800. 3 storey building of red brick, with a parapet masking the
roof. 4 windows in shallow reveals. Ground floor of No 27 has excellent
shop-front treatment of a large broad window with curving corners sandwiching
a central door, a broad frieze available for lettering binding the whole
from beneath a very shallow hood. Immediately below the top window of
No 27 runs a large broad label bearing in raised letters 'PRINTING OFFICE'.
No 28 has a simple canted bay window with a alight moulded hood and a
door of six fielded panels below a simple fanlight and hood. The shop
front treatment of No 27 together with the adjacent doorway of No 28 is
punctuated at intervals with a series of slender reeded panels terminated
with smell roundels.
Nos 13 to 34 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: TL1838628971
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