The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1996. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Round House
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-lantern-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Round House, Wistanstow, SY7 8HS
- OS grid reference
- SO 419 881
- Coordinates
- 52.48802, -2.85629
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House is a building that was originally a school, constructed around 1790. It is made of sandstone rubble and features an octagonal roof covered with 20th-century composite tiles. At the center, there is a dressed stone circular chimney stack with decorative bands and a 20th-century brick superstructure.
The building has two storeys and includes 20th-century windows and a door. The ground-floor windows are adorned with ashlar hoodmoulds, and there is a chain retaining band at the first-floor level along with an ashlar eaves band. The porch has a 20th-century roof, door, and light. Inside, there are 20th-century radiating partition walls.
Local climate
The Round House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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 — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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