The Round House

The Round House is a detached house located on Warminster Road in Chitterne. It dates from the late 17th century and was extended in the early 19th century. The building is constructed from rendered chalk, flint, and brick rubble stone, topped with a Welsh slate roof and a brick stack. The entrance is positioned away from the road, and the south front features two stories with four windows. There is a four-panelled door to the right of the center, a 20th-century door in a former window to the left, and a four-pane sash window to the right. On the first floor, there are three two-light segmental-headed casements to the left and a single-light casement.

The right-hand bay is an early 19th-century addition with a semi-circular east end. This section includes a four-pane sash window on the ground floor, a two-light casement, and a wide 12-pane sash window on the first floor. The rear of the house, which faces the road, has a two-light segmental-headed casement and 20th-century casements on the ground floor, along with a 20th-century casement and a pointed casement with interlaced glazing bars on the first floor. A 20th-century bay has been added to the west end in a similar style.

Inside, the kitchen features a partly blocked open fireplace with a raised timber lintel on brick jambs. The early 19th-century drawing room, located in the curved east end, has reeded door and window architraves with paterae, a door with six reeded panels, and window shutters with reeded panels. The building may have originally been a small single-cell cottage, and the early 19th-century bay with its unusual curved end suggests it may have served as a toll cottage on the turnpike to Amesbury.