The Round House

The Round House is a former toll house, now a residential property, located on the boundary between Withington and Colesbourne. It dates from the early 19th century and is constructed from random tufa limestone with a slate roof and a brick chimney. The building features a single unit plan with the gable end facing the road, which is canted.

The house is two storeys high and has pointed Gothick windows on the ground floor of each face of the canted gable end. On the first floor, there are two 2-light casements with small rectangular panes, although the leaded panes are missing from one side of the casement at the canted gable end. A sliding sash window with horizontal glazing bars lights the ground floor on the south side, to the right of a 19th-century plank door set within a segmental-headed surround.

The Round House was originally built to collect tolls from users of a private road that connected Colesbourne to Seven Springs in Coberly, which was mainly used by the Elwes family of Colesbourne Park.