2 Deanery Cottage, High Street, Sonning, Reading, RG4 6UP

2 Deanery Cottage is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Sonning, Reading, Reading (RG4 6UP). It has a recorded floor area of 102 m² (around 1098 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band E. It is a listed building, which means external alterations are tightly controlled but it may qualify for heritage tax reliefs. The latest certificate (May 2026) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The rating has held steady at D across 4 certificates since December 2009. Between certificates, lighting went from Very Poor to Very Good; while wall efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Average to Very Poor. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 81), a 2-band jump. This certificate was lodged in the last six months, so the rating reflects current condition.

8 planning records sit against the property, 7 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include new windows and an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references listed-building consent, which constrain future alterations. At 102 m² it's 17.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (87 m² median across 24 EPCs). Across 1999–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 4.6% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £562,000 is 15.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£442/sq ft) was about 25.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Last sale on file: £485,000 in February 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.