The Round House

SOUTHPORT

SD31SW WATERLOO ROAD, Birkdale 664-1/3/16 (East side) No.61 The Round House

II

House. 1924-5, by Luke Highton of Southport, for himself, as a residence with an attic observatory; remodelled internally in 1963 by Preston and Norris. White-painted render on brick; roof covering concealed except for glazed observatory. International Modern style. Circular plan. EXTERIOR: two-and-a-half storeys over a basement, with 2 first-floor windows in the centre of the curved west front (which breaks forward slightly) and others round the north and south sides. Roughcast brick plinth, a single sill band and a double lintel band carried round each floor, a high plain parapet broken in the centre by a wide attic gable and ramped up to the rear. The centre has a pair of 3-light windows at ground floor, with rectangular lights which have margin panes and X-shaped geometrical glazing bars in the heads. Pair of matching 2-light windows at first floor, and an oblong attic window in the gable without glazing bars (probably altered glazing); the curved north and south sides have 2-light windows to the main floors like those at the front, and towards the rear on the north side is a semicircular porch with lancet windows (added 1963). In the centre of the roof is a glazed circular observatory window formerly surmounted by a glass dome. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD3214314926