The Round House Umbrella House is a Grade II listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1983. Tollhouse.
The Round House Umbrella House
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-bonework-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- The Wrekin MP: Mark Pritchard (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1983
- Type
- Tollhouse
- Address
- The Round House Umbrella House, 1, Burcotgate, Wrockwardine
- OS grid reference
- SJ 618 106
- Coordinates
- 52.6921, -2.56549
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House, also known as Umbrella House, is a single-storey tollhouse dated 1835, which is said to have been designed by Thomas Telford. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a low-pitched hipped slate roof with very widely overhanging eaves. The building has a symmetrical arrangement of windows with a 1:3:1 pattern, where the centre projects forward as a canted bay. It includes two-light stone mullion windows with glazing bars set in plain architraves. The doorway is located in the right-hand return of the bay, featuring a moulded stone architrave and a door with diamond panels and ornate wrought ironwork. At the centre of the building is an ashlar stack topped with a group of four circular shafts linked by a moulded cornice.
Local climate
The Round House Umbrella House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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