The Deanery is a Grade I listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. A Edwardian House. 12 related planning applications.
The Deanery
- WRENN ID
- scattered-marble-weasel
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Wokingham
- Constituency
- Earley and Woodley MP: Yuan Yang (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- Edwardian
- Address
- The Deanery, Thames Street, Sonning, RG4 6UR
- OS grid reference
- SU 757 756
- Coordinates
- 51.47446, -0.91135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Deanery is a Grade I listed building constructed in 1901 for Edward Hudson, the owner of Country Life, by the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. The gardens were designed by Gertrude Jekyll. The building is situated behind a massive 16th-century brick wall, which is listed separately.
It is a two-storey structure made of brick with some exposed timber, featuring clay tile roofs and wide overhanging eaves. The layout is organized around an inner courtyard, with the main block positioned to the south and wings extending back to the old wall.
The garden front faces south and includes a large, full-height, square glazed timber-framed bay with a hipped roof. There is a semi-circular arched door and a prominent chimney stack that projects from the main wall, featuring three grouped diamond shafts above. Casement windows are located just below the eaves, while the ground floor has mullioned and transomed casements. Additionally, there is another large grouped chimney stack on the ridge and at the rear.
Local climate
The Deanery 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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