Riches Turpins is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. House.
Riches Turpins
- WRENN ID
- waning-merlon-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Riches Turpins, Pearson Road, Sonning
- OS grid reference
- SU 756 754
- Coordinates
- 51.47279, -0.91254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Riches Turpins is a house, now divided into two houses, dating from the late 16th century with some modern additions. It is two storeys high, constructed of brick, and has an old tile gabled roof. The south front features three gables, with one chimney on the ridge between the two left-hand gables and another at the right-hand end. Both chimneys are rectangular and have diagonal pilasters, with offset heads that extend around the heads of the pilasters. The two right-hand gables have a string course at the first floor level. Each gable contains one bay, with an additional bay situated between the right and centre gables. The windows are three-light leaded, with those on the ground floor set in painted moulded wood frames, and some lights retain their original fastenings. There are plain shutters on the ground floor windows of the left and centre gables.
The east front features a timber-framed gable with brick infilling to the left, a central timber-framed gable that projects, and a 20th-century extension to the right. A 20th-century lean-to porch spans the ground floor to the left, which is rendered. The original building was T-shaped, with the gabled wing at the rear being taller. The west front has a hipped end of the main block to the right, a 20th-century entrance at an angle, and a 20th-century extension to the left. Inside, many timbers of the original frame are exposed, with chamfers and stops on the joists of the ground floor and the central first-floor room.
Local climate
Riches Turpins 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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