The Deanery
THE DEANERY, THAMES STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1319459
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1952
- Statutory Address:
- THE DEANERY, THAMES STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1319459
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1952
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DEANERY, THAMES STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE DEANERY, THAMES STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sonning
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 75705 75617
Details
SU 7575 SONNING THAMES STREET (south side)
14/40 The Deanery 1.8.52 GV I
Built in 1901 for Edward Hudson the owner of County Life by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Gardens laid out by Gertrude Jekyll. Behind and incorporating the massive C16 brick wall listed separately (See High Street wall to The Deanery). 2 storey brick with some exposed timbers. Clay tile roofs with wide overhanging eaves. Built round inner courtyard, with main block to south and wings reaching back to old wall. Garden front to south has large, full height, square glazed timber framed bay with hipped roof, semi-circular arched door and feature chimney stack set forward of main wall with 3 grouped diamond shafts above, casement windows immediately below eaves and mullioned and transomed casements in ground floor. Other large grouped stack on ridge and to rear. B.O.E.Berkshire p.220.
Listing NGR: SU7570575617
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41207
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 220
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 3 Berkshire,
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