Public · listed 1952The Deanery
Photo: Andrew Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0AHistory Grade
History of Sonning · Historic England
49 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Sonning’s built-up area, 303 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 46 of Sonning’s listed buildings. 20% of its homes were built before 1919. Sonning grades A for history.
Listed buildings
49
303 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
20%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Sonning
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Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.
The map
Where Sonning’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*Park or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
49 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I2 Grade II*46 Grade II
Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Sonning
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II*
The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Sonning
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*Church · listed 1967St Andrew's ChurchOn the list as Church of St AndrewPhoto: Andrew Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Inns & shops · listed 1967Bull InnOn the list as The Bull HotelPhoto: ad acta · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
Most of Sonning’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas29
Public & civic buildings7
Inns, shops & warehouses6
Walls, gates & bridges5
Churches, chapels & priories1
Street furniture1
29 entries (59%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 are churches, chapels and priories.
Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.
Grade II
46 Grade II listed buildings
Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 46 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barns at Holme Park Farm 200 Metres West of Sonning LaneBrook HouseCleavers Deanery CottageCountry CottageForge CottageGates and Piers to North LodgeGlendale Sarum Cottage York CottageGreen CottageGreen HouseGrove CottageHammering House Sonning HouseHomeleaIvy CottageK6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Pearsons HallKeepers CottageLilac CottageLittle CourtMidland Bank Sonning Butchers St Anne's CottageMilestone, On Grass Verge Back of Pavement 500 Metres East of Junction with Sonning LaneMill HouseNorth LodgeOld School House (West of Track and 45 Metres North of Thames Street)PilgrimsPump, South End of Deanery WallRestaurant and Annex to White HartRiches TurpinsRosemary Cottage SunnysideRoxburgh and Laundry CottageSonning MillSpring CottagesSpring CottagesThe Dower HouseThe GroveThe Little DeaneryThe Malt House the MaltingsThe Old CottageThe Old ExchangeThe Red HouseThe Robert Palmer CottagesThe Thrift ShopThe White HouseThe White LodgeWall Between Site of Former Palace of Bishops of Salisbury and ChurchyardWall South of North LodgeWall to the DeaneryWisteria
Conservation areas
2 conservation areas cover 100% of Sonning
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
No data available for publication by HE151 ha
Sonning Eye 19813 ha
154 hain conservation areas, of 154 ha inside the built-up area.
49 of the 49 listed buildings stand in one.
Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.
How the list grew
More than half of Sonning’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1983
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1983 · 271967 · 13
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 1 entry was listed in 1951. 27 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 registered park or garden
Deanery GardenGrade II*
History Grade
Sonning grades A for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (55 points, 341 per 10,000 residents)More than 85% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (20%)More than 62% of UK towns
Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.
Towns its size
Sonning has the 91st most Grade I buildings of 1,687 towns its size
Places of 1,000–3,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Sonning1
#193 of 1,687for listed buildings per resident (303 per 10,000). Aberaeron, Beaumaris and Burford lead.
90 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Sonning
In brief
Sonning in brief
Measured per resident, Sonning has more listed heritage than 85% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 49 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. Only 90 of the 1,687 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1981.
Most entries on the list, 59%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1983, when 27 of the 49 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: 20% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Sonning’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Sonning?
Historic England lists 49 buildings inside Sonning’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 46 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Sonning?
One: The Deanery.
How many conservation areas are there in Sonning?
2, covering about 154 hectares of the town. The largest are No data available for publication by HE and Sonning Eye.
When were Sonning’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 27, in 1983.
How old are the homes in Sonning?
20% of homes were built before 1919 and 45% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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Sources: Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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