Homelea is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1983. Cottage.
Homelea
- WRENN ID
- brooding-mullion-rowan
- 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
- Homelea, High Street, Sonning
- OS grid reference
- SU 757 754
- Coordinates
- 51.47332, -0.91139
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Homelea is a cottage that dates from the 16th to 17th century and has been altered. It is two storeys high and features two bays with a timber frame, which has painted brick infill in the upper part and colour washed brick on the ground floor. The roof is covered with old tiles. The cottage has two bays of leaded casement windows, with a two-light window above a three-light window, and a ledged central door. Inside, much of the original timber frame is still visible.
Local climate
Homelea 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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