Round House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. House. 6 related planning applications.

Round House

WRENN ID
blind-remnant-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1967
Type
House
Address
Round House, Fanhams Hall Road, Wareside, SG12 7PR
OS grid reference
TL 360 155
Coordinates
51.82215, -0.02693
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Round House is a house dating to around 1700, likely incorporating an older structure in the southeast corner. It was extended westward in the 19th century. The timber frame is clad with mathematical tiles under plaster, appearing as ashlar on the southeast side. The rear is painted red brick, while the western portion of the front is stuccoed with raised quoins and a rusticated entrance. A steep red tile hip roof rises prominently, with an axial chimney in the originally symmetrical eastern part.

The house has two storeys, attics, and a cellar. The south front features two and three windows, with two gabled dormers in the east roof slope, each containing small-paned casement windows. Overhanging eaves have a moulded cornice and a plastered soffit. A low plinth is present. The three-window eastern part has six-over-six pane flush box sash windows on the upper floor, with louvred shutters. A flush 19th-century French door is centrally positioned, replacing a former entrance, and another French door is to the right. The left-hand window has been replaced by a stuccoed canted parapet bay matching a similar bay window on the 19th-century western extension, which extends beyond the new front door. This extension features a four-panel moulded door within a glazed panelled screen. Above the door, a recessed sash window with six-over-six panes is located, above which is a triple sash over a further bay window. A rebuilt conservatory sits on the western end.

The east elevation, with two windows, has eight-over-eight paned flush box sashes on the upper floor, and similar windows to the ground floor, where the sills were lowered in the 19th century.

Local climate

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 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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