The Horse and Groom is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1983. Inn. 1 related planning application.

The Horse and Groom

WRENN ID
sombre-railing-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 December 1983
Type
Inn
Address
The Horse and Groom, Bath Road, Wargrave, RG10 9SB
OS grid reference
SU 803 778
Coordinates
51.49428, -0.84451
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Horse and Groom is an inn with stables and a hayloft, currently functioning as a public house and restaurant. It dates back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed and has been refaced with painted brick. It features brick dentil eaves beneath an old tile gabled roof, which has three gabled dormers and a wide chimney on the west gable. The structure is L-shaped, with additional 20th-century extensions at the rear. It stands one and a half stories tall and includes a cellar.

On the north front, there are three 2-light casement windows with horizontal glazing bars in the dormers. The ground floor has two flat angular bays with sash windows and glazing bars; the central bay features an entrance door on the left, with both bays having flat roofs. To the right, there is a tripartite sash window with glazing bars. On the left side, a converted stable retains a gabled hayloft with a boarded door in the roof and two sash windows with glazing bars on either side of a 20th-century small pane entrance door. Inside, the building has two bays of floor framing with chamfers on the principal beams and joists, some of which have been replaced, along with chamfers and stops; there is also some false timberwork.

Local climate

The Horse and Groom 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 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
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