The Round House

The Round House is a house dating from around the 18th century, remodelled in the early to mid-19th century and with later 19th or early 20th century alterations. It is constructed of stone rubble, with pebbledash on the front and sides, and has a slate hipped roof with wide eaves. Rendered stacks are present—axial, side, and rear—with rendered stone shafts topped by louvred yellow clay pots. The house’s layout is a double-depth plan, comprising two rooms at the front, a central entrance passage with a staircase at the back, and two smaller service rooms at the rear. The left-hand front rooms are heated by back-to-back fireplaces in an axial stack, while the right-hand front room has a stack on its side, and the room behind has a lateral stack at the back.

In the early to mid-19th century, a bowed, single-room addition was built to the left side, likely as a shop; it has been recently subdivided. The south front has three windows and was symmetrical before the bay was added. It features 19th-century 16-pane sashes in exposed cases with plain stuccoed architraves. A two-storey canted bay was added to the right, featuring 4 and 2-pane sashes and an ogee cast iron gutter. The central doorway has a circa late-19th century panelled and glazed door, sheltered by a flat canopy on shaped brackets and with wrought iron lattice sides.

The left-hand, west side is bowed and has asymmetrical fenestration, with two 19th-century 16-pane sashes on the first floor and three 4-pane fixed-light windows on the ground floor (likely replacing sashes). A doorway is positioned to the right of centre. The rear elevation is whitewashed slate rubble, featuring a 12-pane fixed-light stair window to the left of centre, a 2-light casement with glazing bars in a blocked doorway to the right, a 19th-century flush panel door to the right of centre, and a blocked doorway on the left. The right-hand, east side features a two-storey flat roof extension. The interior features 19th-century joinery on the ground floor; the first floor was not inspected.