Grove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Cottage. 8 related planning applications.
Grove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- salt-moat-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Grove Cottage, Pearson Road, Sonning, RG4 6UL
- OS grid reference
- SU 757 754
- Coordinates
- 51.47271, -0.91123
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage, significantly altered over time. It is two storeys high and built of painted brick, with a first-floor string course and a painted, moulded eaves cornice supported by brackets. The roof is hipped and covered in old tiles, with a central chimney featuring an offset head and pilasters. The south front originally had five bays. The upper windows are sash windows; the central one is a narrow two-pane window, while the others are three panes wide. The second bay from the right has been blocked, and the outer windows have also been altered. All windows have segmental heads. The central three bays of the ground floor are covered by an early 19th-century closed stucco porch, which has been altered from its original design of four slender columns and an entablature; it is now filled in with brickwork. The porch contains a six-panelled door with small lights in the outer panels. An insurance plaque is affixed to the front elevation. An altered service wing is located to the left. Inside, there is some timber panelling on the ground floor.
Local climate
Grove Cottage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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