Round House Farmhouse and Attached Cowhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1986. Farmhouse.

Round House Farmhouse and Attached Cowhouse

WRENN ID
lesser-chancel-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Staffordshire Moorlands
Constituency
Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Round House Farmhouse and Attached Cowhouse, Oakamoor
OS grid reference
SK 049 433
Coordinates
52.98749, -1.9274
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Round House Farmhouse and attached cowhouse is a farmhouse and cowhouse that underwent early 19th-century remodelling of an 18th-century house. The building is constructed of ashlar with a plain tile roof featuring a coped verge to the north-west and a hipped design to the south-east. It has an ashlar and brick lateral external stack. The structure is aligned north-west to south-east, with the house located to the south-east and the cowhouse to the north-west.

The farmhouse is two storeys high. The south-east front has three windows, which are glazing bar sashes with semi-circular heads. The first-floor windows on the left and right are blind and feature painted imitation glazing bars. There is a central door with a fanlight that contains radiating glazing bars. On the south-west front, the house has two bays on the right and a single bay for the cowhouse on the left, both under the same roof line. The windows are glazing bar sashes of various sizes. There is a door to the right of centre with a chamfered and stopped lintel, a cowhouse window on the ground floor to the left, and a loft door above. The building is reputed to have been a hunting lodge for Alton Towers.

Local climate

Round House Farmhouse and Attached Cowhouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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