Roundhouse Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1983. Cottage.
Roundhouse Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-rood-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Roundhouse Cottage, Ickworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 816 602
- Coordinates
- 52.21034, 0.65796
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Roundhouse Cottage is a mid-19th century cottage that was formerly a gamekeeper's cottage for the Ickworth Estate. It has two storeys and a circular plan. The walls are colour washed and rendered, featuring painted timber-framing that forms a frieze at the upper wall level beneath the open eaves. The roof is a slated conical shape with a central circular chimney made of red header bricks. The cottage has four-light horizontal sliding small-pane sash windows. The entrance door is four-panelled and is set in a recessed open porch, which is supported by massive circular columns on the upper floor.
Local climate
Roundhouse Cottage 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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