The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1984. Lodge.
The Round House
- WRENN ID
- vacant-gallery-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1984
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- The Round House, Church Road, Thorington
- OS grid reference
- TM 433 735
- Coordinates
- 52.30627, 1.56862
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House is a gamekeeper's lodge for the Thorington Hall estate, built around 1820, with later alterations and significant additions. The original structure is a two-storey rectangle with chamfered corners and single-storey semi-circular wings on each long side. It features small flint pebbles, painted brick dressings, and thatched roofs. The building has two-light casement windows, with those at the ends of the main block having chamfered heads. Each semi-circular wing has one doorway: one with a half-glazed door and the other with a four-panel door, where the upper two panels are glazed and topped with a thatched hood. The main block includes a plinth and a brick band at the first-floor level, while both wings have a plastered plinth. The unaltered wing has a plaster band at the eaves level, while the other wing has a plastered flat-roofed first-floor addition. Inside, the main block has a central internal stack with two square flues set diagonally. There are late 19th-century and 20th-century extensions to the west.
Local climate
The Round House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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