The Round House is a Grade II* listed building in the Havering local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. A Georgian Villa. 1 related planning application.
The Round House
- WRENN ID
- solitary-dormer-yarrow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Havering
- Constituency
- Romford MP: Andrew Rosindell (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1952
- Type
- Villa
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Round House, Broxhill Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 514 931
- Coordinates
- 51.61667, 0.1867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House, built around 1792 for William Sheldon, is an oval villa located on Broxhill Road. It features a stucco exterior and a Welsh slate roof with an eaves cornice, culminating in an oval copper parapet. The building has three storeys and eight double-hung sash windows, with three windows on each flatter side and one window on each rounder side. There are first and second floor bands, and four pairs of giant Doric pilasters with entablatures marking the changes in curvature between the flatter and rounder sides. The entrance porch is supported by Doric pilasters and Ionic columns on a stylobate, topped with an entablature. The entrance includes a six-fielded panel two-fold door set in a round-headed reveal, complete with marginal and fanlights. The rounded ends of the building feature first-floor balconies. Inside, one ground floor room is adorned with early 19th-century panoramic wallpaper by Dufour and Cie.
Local climate
The Round House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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