Round House is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1988. House.
Round House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-oriel-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Round House, Powderham
- OS grid reference
- SX 962 848
- Coordinates
- 50.65364, -3.46972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House is a house that is said to have been converted from the remains of the dovecote at Powderham Castle. It dates from the 18th century, with a likely addition from the 19th century. The original dovecote is built of Flemish bond brick and has a conical slate roof that has been painted with bitumen. The addition is whitewashed and rendered, and there is a brick chimney stack on the dovecote. The original dovecote is round in shape and was described in 1799 by Swete as a dove-house "with a cupola." The building has a one-room plan addition. The exterior features two ground floor and one first floor two-light casement windows on the dovecote, and there are two doors leading into the added block, which has 20th-century windows. The interior is plain. This structure is an unusual survival and is important for its landscape value, making it a striking feature in the Powderham landscape.
Local climate
Round House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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