The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1987. Cottage.

The Round House

WRENN ID
stony-flint-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 October 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
The Round House, 98, Newmarket Road, Cringleford, NR4 6UD
OS grid reference
TG 188 056
Coordinates
52.60437, 1.23096
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Round House is a cottage built around 1805 for the estate of Sir Roger Kerrison. It is constructed of red brick and features a brick dentil cornice and black glazed pantiles. The building is octagonal in shape, with the front and rear faces being wider than the sides. It stands two storeys tall, topped with an octagonal roof and a central octagonal chimney stack. The windows have pointed openings with Y tracery; some are fixed while others are casements with pintle hinges. The first-floor openings are shorter and lack jambs.

On the south facade facing the road, there are two openings on both the ground and first floors, although the first-floor openings are blank. The left and right facades each have one opening on both floors. The east and west facades feature a pointed doorway with a pointed boarded door and a blank opening above. The rear facade to the north mirrors the south, with the left and right sides having ground floor openings that are partially blocked by inserted windows.

Local climate

The Round House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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