The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Lodge. 1 related planning application.
The Round House
- WRENN ID
- strange-span-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- The Round House, Boulge Road, Burgh, IP13 6SU
- OS grid reference
- TM 232 516
- Coordinates
- 52.11832, 1.25994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House is a lodge built in the early 19th century, with 20th-century additions. It is constructed of rubble flint with white brick dressings and features a thatched roof. The building has an octagonal single-storey plan, with a flat-roofed rectangular addition at the rear. The entrance side has a gabled porch supported by spur walls that end in demi-Tuscan pillars on brick and flint plinths. These pillars hold up a pedimental gablet with white brick edging. The other sides of the building each have a central two-light casement window with a pointed arch and Y-tracery, surrounded by quoins of white brick at the corners and around the windows. The conical thatched roof rises to a central octagonal chimney shaft that slightly flares at the top. The 20th-century addition is attached to the octagonal face farthest from the road, featuring colourwashed, rendered walls and a felted roof.
Local climate
The Round House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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