The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Lodge cottage. 2 related planning applications.

The Round House

WRENN ID
pale-fireplace-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 August 1986
Type
Lodge cottage
Address
The Round House, Hall Road, Belchamp Walter, CO10 7AS
OS grid reference
TL 822 406
Coordinates
52.03397, 0.65571
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Round House is an early to mid-19th century hexagonal lodge cottage. It is constructed of knapped flint with gault brick dressings, and has a thatched roof with a central rectangular gault brick stack. A single-storey link connects the lodge to a later two-storey block, which has a gabled peg tile roof and a rendered first floor above a flint pebble ground floor. The lodge windows are 20th-century casements, and the later extension has 20th-century small-pane casements.

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 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
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  • 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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