The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. Cottage.
The Round House
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-cellar-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Round House, Leighton Street, Woburn
- OS grid reference
- SP 940 328
- Coordinates
- 51.98658, -0.63171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House is a former base of a smock windmill, converted between 1805 and 1820 into a Picturesque cottage for John, the 6th Duke of Bedford. It was previously known as Windmill Cottage. The building is constructed of coursed ironstone, with some brick repairs, and is entirely colourwashed. It features a pyramidal clay tile roof, with some fishscale tiles, and has an octagonal plan with one storey and attics.
On the southeast elevation, there is a part-glazed door set in a cambered-headed opening. Above this door is a three-centred arch with a projecting keystone, and the brickwork beneath suggests that the arch was likely open before the conversion. Other elevations display round-arched recesses with projecting keystones; some are blind, while others contain casement windows with glazing bars. The southwest and northeast elevations have semi-circular eyebrow dormers that also contain casement windows. A central brick chimney stack is present, and there is an early 20th-century single-storey addition with a slate roof on the northeast elevation. The Round House is noted as an architectural curiosity.
Local climate
The Round House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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