Soberton House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1967. House. 4 related planning applications.
Soberton House
- WRENN ID
- scattered-chamber-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Soberton House, School Hill, Winchester, SO32 3PF
- OS grid reference
- SU 610 168
- Coordinates
- 50.94778, -1.13183
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Soberton House is an 18th-century house with early 19th-century extensions and alterations in Regency style. The building features walls of painted brickwork in English bond, with stucco applied to the Regency section and tile-hanging on the south elevation. It has a tiled roof with hips at the rear and is L-shaped, with a later extension to the north and rear.
The symmetrical west front elevation is two storeys and an attic, with three widely spaced windows. The ground floor has a triple sash window, and the off-centre porch is designed in a slender and exaggerated Greek Doric Order, featuring two pilasters and two fluted columns in the upper two-thirds, along with a wide doorway that includes coupled half-glazed doors and narrow side panes.
The rear elevation, also stuccoed, is symmetrical on the north side, with two windows above one, and a large triple sash window on the ground floor that reaches to floor level. The other part of this elevation swells outward, showcasing an arched staircase window. The south side retains the remains of an 18th-century staircase wing, which has two levels of hipped roofing with a narrow span, and includes a rear doorway with a simple canopy on posts and a half-glazed door. The remaining elevations display a vernacular character and detail. Inside, there is a fine curving staircase.
Local climate
Soberton House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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
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- 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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