Round House is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1960. Teasel drying tower, house. 1 related planning application.
Round House
- WRENN ID
- former-rotunda-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1960
- Type
- Teasel drying tower, house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SO 80 SW WOODCHESTER FROGMARSH
4/219 Round House (previously listed as Round House at Frogmarsh Mill) 28.6.60
GV II
Former teasel drying tower, now small house. Mid-late C18; late C20 addition. Coursed rubble limestone; stone slate roof. Three-storey; circular with 2-storey circular addition. Three small lancets at cardinal positions and upper level pointed arched doorway to rear, now reached by C20 stairs. Lancets removed at connection with C20 addition but reused on that addition. Inserted fixed light at low-level on original tower; some timber casements to addition. Conical roofs; addition with finial. Interior not inspected. An important survival, dry teasels being used in the process of raising the nap of cloth. (L.F.J. Walrond, 'Wool, Woolmen and Weavers' in C. and A.M. Hadfield ed., The Cotswolds - A New Study, 1973.)
Listing NGR: SO8406901735
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