The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1985. Cottage.
The Round House
- WRENN ID
- salt-brass-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Round House, Lower Green Road, Wethersfield
- OS grid reference
- TL 738 314
- Coordinates
- 51.95424, 0.52874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House is a cottage that dates from the 18th to 19th century and has been altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with a plastered exterior and a thatched roof. The building is octagonal in shape and has a central stack. There is a single-storey extension on the east side with a red clay tiled roof, and a porch with a hipped thatched roof on the southwest side. The cottage has two storeys and includes 20th-century casement windows on the west and south sides at both levels. A plain boarded door from the 20th century is located at the side of the porch.
Local climate
The Round House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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