The White House is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. A Georgian House. 4 related planning applications.
The White House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-storey-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The White House, High Street, Sonning, RG4 6UP
- OS grid reference
- SU 757 754
- Coordinates
- 51.47324, -0.91102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White House is an early 19th-century house located on the east side of High Street in Sonning. It is two storeys high, constructed of painted brick, and features a wide eaves cornice and a hipped slate roof. The west front has three bays, which are divided by panelled pilasters that extend the full height of the building. A bed mould of the cornice wraps around to form a cap, and there is a panelled string at the first-floor level between the pilasters. The windows are vertical sliding sash with glazing bars set in plain reveals, with cills on the first floor and taller windows on the ground floor. The central entrance features a four-panelled door topped by a rectangular fanlight with diamond-pattern glazing, all under a flat hood supported by square posts with incised lines. Access to the door is via a flight of stone steps flanked by outward curving dwarf walls.
Local climate
The White House 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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