• See general information about Dwellings.
• The RBA has a guide to researching buildings and places and a detailed catalogue of the leases of borough properties, 1514-1875 (R/AT3).  See also an article in the Berkshire Family Historian, Vol 33, Sep 2009, page 22. The RBA holds house sale catalogues for Berkshire properties. These are the forerunners of the estate agents' particulars that we use today to tell us what we would get for our money, and are mostly 19th and 20th century.
• Reading Central Library also holds over 4000 house sale catalogues which give detailed descriptions of houses when put up for sale in the past, see their Factsheet.  To identify their holdings, search the library catalogue with "sale catalogue" in the search field.
• Descriptions of some of the historic buildings, including castles and grander houses, of Berkshire are available from Royal Berkshire History.  
• The homes of the more prominent residents of towns and villages are usually described in trade directories, with their residents' names.
• British Listed Buildings Online.
• Berkshire Return of Landowners, 1873 (of land over one acre) is held by the at TNA.  Ancestry provide subscription access.  An extract is available on both microfiche and CD from Berkshire FHS 
• Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England: Berkshire, 21 May 2010, ISBN: 9780300126624, copies held by Reading Central Library. 
• Coley Park, Reading from the RBA. 
• Shaw House records are held by the RBA. 
• Welford Park records are held by the RBA. 
• Valuation Office survey 1910 - 1915. - see Taxation.  
• For Public Houses (pubs) - see Licenced Victualers (under Occupations). 
• For books about a building, or perhaps just a passing reference, try searching online books, see the Bibliography. 
• For photographs, see Historical Photographs (under History). 

• The DiCamillo Companion to British and Irish County Houses - information on present and demolished country houses throughout UK and Ireland, including history, information about owners, etc.
• Lost Heritage  lists significant English country houses which have been demolished, severely reduced in size, or are ruin, including many in Berkshire, some with pictures.
• British Listed Buildings Online is an online database of buildings and structures of architectural and historic interest with data for each building, some photographs, location on a map, Google Streetview and Bing Birds Eye View.   
• The Land Registry offer historical reports of past ownership.
• Valuation Office survey 1910 - 1915. - see Taxation.  
• For Public Houses (pubs) - see Occupations (under Inns, Hotels and Pubs). 

Barratt, Nick. Tracing the History of Your House, PRO Publications (2006), 272pp.  [ISBN-13: 978-1903365908].