The Roundhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1955. A C18 Gazebo.
The Roundhouse
- WRENN ID
- broken-crypt-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1955
- Type
- Gazebo
- Address
- The Roundhouse, Wimborne St. Giles
- OS grid reference
- SU 046 110
- Coordinates
- 50.89892, -1.93591
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roundhouse is a gazebo built around 1700 for the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury. It features brick walls topped with a domical roof made of tiles and lead. The structure has a square plan and stands two storeys high, with a plat band on the first floor. There are square-headed doorways on the east and west sides, and 18-pane sash windows. The west side includes an oval window above the entrance, and there is a carved stone cartouche displaying arms on the south side.
Local climate
The Roundhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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