The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 December 1966. Summer house, house.
The Round House
- WRENN ID
- carved-garret-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Goole and Pocklington MP: David Davis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 December 1966
- Type
- Summer house, house
- Address
- The Round House, Knedlington Road, Howden
- OS grid reference
- SE 739 279
- Coordinates
- 53.74255, -0.87967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House is a summer house, now a residential property, dating from the late 18th century with some minor later alterations. It is constructed of brick in Flemish bond with gauged brick and stone dressings, topped by a Welsh slate roof. The building has an octagonal plan and stands two storeys high. The ground floor is partially obscured to the east by 19th and 20th-century buildings that are not of special interest.
On the north elevation, there is a 20th-century inserted casement window and an ashlar band. The first floor features a round-arched sash window with glazing bars, flanked by blind round-arched panels that include an ashlar impost band and gauged brick arches. The eaves are adorned with a modillion course, and the roof is hipped with a central octagonal chimney stack.
Inside, the first-floor room, which has been divided, retains original Adamesque decoration. This includes two round-arched windows and panelled reeded round-arched alcoves with a radial pattern in the tympana, except for the fireplace wall, which features an eared panel. The room is finished with an anthemion and urn cornice.
Local climate
The Round House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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