The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Cottage.
The Round House
- WRENN ID
- dark-crypt-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Round House, Thetford Road, Ixworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 928 709
- Coordinates
- 52.30323, 0.82726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House is a cottage built in the Gothic style as a lodge to Ixworth Abbey in the early 19th century. It has a single-storey, oval plan and is constructed with a timber frame and roughcast exterior. The conical thatched roof features overhanging eaves supported by a ring of posts. A central chimney stack is made of ornate moulded gault brick. The windows are casements with pointed arched heads, transoms, and diamond-leaded panes, with some painted windows to watch. The door is made of vertical planking and has applied pilaster strips. There is a small gabled projection on the right side that contains two 2-light Gothic casements.
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 86% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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