The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
The Round House
- WRENN ID
- outer-corbel-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Round House, 7, Cliffway, Frinton and Walton, CO13 9NL
- OS grid reference
- TM 245 205
- Coordinates
- 51.83841, 1.25789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House is a house located at 7 Cliffway in Frinton-on-Sea, built around 1935 by Oliver Hill. It is a Modern Movement house, constructed with plaster, possibly over concrete, and features a flat roof with a chimney stack at the rear left. The building is circular and consists of two storeys. Originally, it was designed as the Frinton Park Estate Offices and included a mural depicting the estate's plan, though it is unclear if this mural still exists.
On the first floor, there are three curved six-light windows, a two-light window to the left, and two small circular windows to the right. A flat canopy extends around the ground floor, which has two three-light windows and a glazed door on the left, and a porch with small circular windows on the side walls and a glazed door on the right.
The Frinton Park Estate, where this house is located, was developed starting in 1934 as a planned residential community but was not fully realized due to a lack of public support for flat-roofed houses. Despite being surrounded by other buildings now, the estate still contains the largest group of Modern Movement houses in the country. Although the glazing has been recently replaced, The Round House remains a significant architectural feature, noted for its circular design, projecting 'skirt', and its role as a focal point within the model estate.
Local climate
The Round House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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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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