The Round House

The Round House is a house built between 1924 and 1925 by Luke Highton of Southport for his own residence, featuring an attic observatory. The house was remodelled internally in 1963 by Preston and Norris. It has a white-painted render on brick, with the roof covering concealed except for the glazed observatory. Designed in the International Modern style, it has a circular plan.

The exterior consists of two-and-a-half storeys over a basement. The curved west front features two first-floor windows that slightly project forward, with additional windows on the north and south sides. There is a roughcast brick plinth, a single sill band, and a double lintel band around each floor. The high plain parapet is broken in the centre by a wide attic gable and ramps up towards the rear.

At the ground floor, the centre has a pair of 3-light windows with rectangular lights that include margin panes and X-shaped geometrical glazing bars in the heads. The first floor has a matching pair of 2-light windows, and there is an oblong attic window in the gable that lacks glazing bars, likely indicating altered glazing. The curved north and south sides have 2-light windows similar to those at the front. On the north side, towards the rear, there is a semicircular porch with lancet windows, which was added in 1963. At the centre of the roof, there is a glazed circular observatory window that was formerly topped with a glass dome. The interior has not been inspected.