The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1985. Former village bridewell. 2 related planning applications.
The Round House
- WRENN ID
- blind-forge-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1985
- Type
- Former village bridewell
- Address
- The Round House, Chorley, CW5 8JR
- OS grid reference
- SJ 573 510
- Coordinates
- 53.05486, -2.63712
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House is a late 18th-century building that was formerly a village bridewell and is now a house. It is constructed of red brick in stretcher bond and features a slate roof. The building has two storeys and an octagonal plan, with five faces containing windows and two faces with doors. The windows are flush casement style with flat arches. There are half-glazed doors at the sides, which are part of added timber and glass porches. The eaves have a three-course deep band with a dentil middle course. The roof has lead hips and a square central stack. Inside, the walls of the rooms radiate from the center, and there are cased beams. The interior has been modernised.
Local climate
The Round House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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