Sun House
SUN HOUSE, 9, FROGNAL WAY
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322140
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Sun House
- Statutory Address:
- SUN HOUSE, 9, FROGNAL WAY
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2005-02-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/13999/03
- Rights:
- © Elisabeth Cox. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322140
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Sun House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUN HOUSE, 9, FROGNAL WAY
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:
- SUN HOUSE, 9, FROGNAL WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26181 85542
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2685NW FROGNAL WAY
798-1/26/542 (North side)
14/05/74 No.9
Sun House
GV II*
Detached house. 1935-6. By Maxwell Fry. Reinforced concrete
walls using wallboard shuttering. Flat roof.
3 storeys and roof terrace. Continuous strip windows; glazing
altered. On a steeply sloping south-facing site the ground
floor right-hand bay being the projecting entrance and garage;
to left, the rear retaining wall and thin steel pilotis
support the 1st floor continuous balcony with tubular steel
railings. 1st floor windows plate glass sliding French
windows; right hand end of balcony, with projecting canopy,
breaks forward over garage and entrance; left hand end with
panel of small glazed lights in end wall and thin steel piloti
supporting a loggia at 2nd floor level, now panelled in. 2nd
floor windows originally sliding, now metal framed casements.
Parapet with tubular rail balustrade to roof terrace with
projecting canopy.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Fry was a founder member of the MARS Group
which did much to forward the cause of the new architecture.
It is a pioneer work of the Modern Movement in the UK.
Listing NGR: TQ2617985543
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477450
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 06-Jun-2026 at 18:07:46.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.