The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. A C18 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Round House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-step-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Round House, Duck End, Finchingfield, CM7 4HZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 687 333
- Coordinates
- 51.97318, 0.45527
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House is a cottage ornè dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof and a hexagonal plan featuring a central stack. There is a single-storey lean-to extension with a corrugated iron roof on the northwest side. The building has two storeys and a plain boarded door with a two-centred head facing south, which is sheltered by a late 19th-century tiled gabled porch that has scalloped bargeboards and a finial. Each of the four sides features 20th-century reproduction Gothic casements on both floors, including one above the door, all with tracery and diamond leading.
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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