The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1988. Lodge.
The Round House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-footing-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1988
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- The Round House, 1, School Lane, Mepal
- OS grid reference
- TL 441 808
- Coordinates
- 52.40627, 0.11754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House is an early 19th-century lodge located on School Lane in Mepal. It features a polygonal roof covered with modern tiles that rises to a central gault brick chimney. The building has an octagonal plan and is a single storey. The original casement windows are set in pointed arches, with some retaining their original leaded lights in the heads.
Local climate
The Round House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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