The Round House

DOWNTON DOWNTON ROAD SU 12 NE (off east side) 4/64 The Round House

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Detached house. Early C19 with mid-C19 additions to south. Flemish bond brick, Westmorland or Welsh slate roofs, brick stacks. Octagonal house with rectangular additions. 2-storey and basement, 5-window front. C20 door in hipped-roofed porch to octagon, all windows are C20 metal casements in Tudor-arched openings with surviving Gothic glazing bars to heads. 2-brick plat band and dentilled eaves course. Rear has C20 French windows to basement with gauged brick Tudor-arched opening, C20 addition to left in same style as rest, some earlier brickwork in header bond to base of rear wall suggests earlier octagon on same site, possibly early C18. Right return has C20 porch. Interior undergoing extensive alteration at time of survey (December 1984), by Longford Estate. Situated in picturesque position on bank overlooking the River Avon, was probably originally visible from Longford Castle (q.v.) and may have been built as a landscape feature.

Listing NGR: SU1697925034