The Bull Hotel is a Grade II* listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Inn. 9 related planning applications.

The Bull Hotel

WRENN ID
sombre-mortar-hawk
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1967
Type
Inn
Address
The Bull Hotel, Church Approach, Sonning, RG4 6UP
OS grid reference
SU 756 755
Coordinates
51.4736, -0.91183
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bull Hotel is an inn that dates back to the late 16th century, with additions made in the 19th and 20th centuries that project in front and at right angles on the right side. The building has two storeys and features a timber frame with painted brick infill, a colour-washed brick ground floor front, and an old tiled roof with gables and irregular brick chimneys.

The west front consists of five irregular bays. The first, second, and fourth bays from the left have upper projecting bays with gabled heads. The second bay has a cill supported by a central bracket. The leftmost bay contains a three-light early 19th-century wood casement window, while the second bay has a similar four-light window flanked by doors. The right side features a chimney with a lean-to over its lower part and a gabled bay to the right.

Inside, the timber frame is nearly complete, with all floor beams and joists stop-chamfered, except for the service end. The first-floor casements are located in their original openings, which still have original shutter grooves. There is also a blocked original window opening at the ground floor left-hand rear north end, which retains diamond mullions. The roof structure includes a queen post with clasped purlins, original rafters, and large curved windbraces.

Local climate

The Bull Hotel 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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