The Sun Public House
THE SUN PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1273783
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Sun Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE SUN PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1273783
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jan-1982
- List Entry Name:
- The Sun Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SUN PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE SUN PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Colchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dedham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0568933166
Details
1.
TM 0533
26/27
5214
DEDHAM
HIGH STREET (north side)
The Sun Public House
(formerly listed as the Sun Hotel)
23.6.52
GV II*
2.
C14 and later timber framed and plastered with ridged, gabled and hipped roofs clad in pegtile. Plan complex, based on an L. Two red brick chimneys each with modern tops. Ridge height broken at east, where 2 bays with full-height carriage arch to rear yard. Western range has a parapet with dentilled wooden cornice, first storey on underbuilt jetty, now painted brick. A semi-hexagonal bow-window in third place range has 3, 3 part small-paned sashes including bow-window and 2 pedimented doorcases in places 2 and 5, then archway and a pair of small-paned ashes in exposed boxes. First storey has modern casements, except for the bow window, and 2 sliding-sashes on right of archway.
Elizabethan stairs tower at rear (west) with rich detailing and jettied gable on brackets. Stair external under pentice, pegtiled.
Inside: 2 builds visible, that to, west of one bay, chimney bay without chimney and a bay. Then to east a tall one bay build with former frontal long-wall jetty supported on finely wrought joists, richly moulded and soffit-tenoned.
Listing NGR: TM0568933166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 417137
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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