The Thrift Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Shop.
The Thrift Shop
- WRENN ID
- crooked-panel-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- The Thrift Shop, High Street, Sonning
- OS grid reference
- SU 757 755
- Coordinates
- 51.47357, -0.91136
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thrift Shop is a 17th-century house that has been converted into a shop. It is two storeys high, constructed of painted brick with some timber framing, and features an old tile roof. On the left side, there is a timber-framed gable bay with an original moulded barge board. This bay has a large two-light upper sliding casement window with glazing bars above a 19th-century angular bay that has a hipped old tile roof and a sliding casement with glazing bars in front. To the right, there are two bays with similar upper casement windows, one of which mirrors the left-hand window on the ground floor. The central entrance features a segmental-headed four-panelled door beneath a 19th-century gabled hood, alongside a small later three-light shop window to the right.
Local climate
The Thrift Shop 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 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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