The Round House

TL 479 104 MATCHING LONDON ROAD, The Round House 2/35 (formerly listed as the Round 12.1.83 House Cottage under Harrow Tye) II

Lodge cottage, late C18, extended in early C20. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. Octagonal, with central chimney stack, in 2 rooms at each floor, built as 2 cottages, now combined. Extension to SE with chimney stack at end, early C20. Minor lean-to extensions to NE and W. 2 storeys. Pyramidal stop roof, extended with a gable to SE All existing doors and windows C20. On upper floor of NW elevation a blocked window, designed externally to resemble a four-petalled flower, with a diamond-shaped frame visible internally through wallpaper. A similar diamond-shaped window in. SE elevation, visible through wallpaper inside the extension. In the tithe award of 1849 this building was occupied as 2 tenements (then in the parish of Harlow). It is marked on the First Edition 1" Ordnance Survey c.1802. Originally it was a lodge cottage on the western approach to Hubbards Ball, although this access is now interrupted.

Listing NGR: TL4793910406