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Listed Buildings in Sonning and Sonning Eye

This DRAFT list has been compiled by members of the Society to enable residents and visitors to identify important buildings in the two villages. There are key works here by Arts & Crafts architects, Sir Edwin Lutyens (Deanery Garden, 1901) and Halsey Ricardo (The Eyot House, 1905), as well as several restorations or new buildings by Victorian architect, Henry Woodyer. In addition to the restored mediaeval church, the villages also have some fine buildings dating from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

Special Note: This list is a working draft as at October 2004, so please treat with care.


What is a listed building?
Listed building are those recommended by English Heritage for inclusion on statutory lists compiled by the Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport. Listing ensures that the architectural and historic interest of the building is carefully considered before any alterations, either outside or inside, are agreed.

What do the Grades mean?
  • Grade I buildings are of exceptional interest
  • Grade II* are particularly important buildings of more than special interest
  • Grade II are of special interest, warranting every effort to preserve them

All the buildings on this list are Grade II unless otherwise indicated. Wherever possible current building names are used.

(P) indicates a restoration or alteration by Sidney Paddick, a 20th-century builder who lived in Sonning for over 60 years. Paddick and his firm were responsible for much of the newer developments in Pound Lane, and on the south side of the Bath Road. The information is taken from Paddick’s privately published, Memoirs of a Nonagenarian, (1981).

Buildings listed in GREEN are links to photographic images. Click the link to see a photograph of the building: click on the 'up' arrow at the top right of the page to return to this page, or use the other arrows to move to other photographs.

IN SONNING
St Andrew’s Church (Grade II* - restored by Woodyer)

In the Churchyard/near the Thames
Wall to former Bishop’s Palace Ice House

High Street (East side, from Pearson Road)
Bow Cottage (P), and
St Anne’s Cottage, and
Blayes
White Lodge
White House (P)
Brook House (P)
Deanery Cottage 1 (P), with
Deanery Cottage 2, and
Cleavers

High Street (West side, from Pearson Road)
The Old Exchange
Holmelea
Country Cottage (P)
The Malt House (P), with Maltings,
incorporating The (former) Thrift Shop
The Bull (Grade II*)
Pump
Wall to Deanery

Pearson Road (North side, from Pound Lane)
Telephone Kiosk outside Pearson Hall
Robert Palmer Cottages (P)
Sonning House (P)
incorporating Hammering House (P)

The Dower House (P)
Grove Cottage (P)
Green House (P)
Green Cottage
Rosemary Cottage
incorporating Sunnyside (P)
Ivy Cottage (P)
Wistaria (P)
Rich’s Cottage, with
Turpins



Pearson Road (South side, from Pound Lane)
Forge Cottage
The Old Cottage (P)
Glendale, with
Sarum Cottage (P), and
York Cottage(P)

The Grove (P)
Lilac Cottage (P)
Roxburgh (P), with
Laundry Cottage (P)


Thames Street (North side, from Sonning Bridge)
Sonning Bridge (Berkshire End)
The Red House (P)
Restaurant and Annex to The Great House
Pilgrims (P)
Old School House (off road) (P)


Thames Street (South side, from Sonning Bridge)
Little Deanery
Deanery (Grade I - Lutyens) (P)


APPROACH ROADS TO SONNING

Charvil Lane (South side, from Twyford)
Littlecourt Farm(P)
Spring Cottages 1 & 2 (P)
Spring Cottages 3 & 4 (P)


Sonning Lane (West side, from Reading)
Barns at Holme Park Farm
Wall south of North Lodge
North Lodge (Woodyer) (P)
Gate and Piers at North Lodge (Woodyer)


Also listed are:
Milestone on Bath Road (North) near Sonning Lane
Milestone on Old Bath Road (North) near Bath Road, Charvil


IN SONNING EYE
Walking away from Sonning Bridge
Sonning Bridge (Oxfordshire End)
The Mill House (P)
The Mill Theatre
Citra Barn
Oak Barn
French Barn
Frizers Farm House
Mill Farm House
Long Gardens
The Homestead
Homestead Farm Barn
The Eyot House (Grade II* - Ricardo)
Centuries (P)