Canal Round House is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1960. Canal lengthman's house.
Canal Round House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-railing-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1960
- Type
- Canal lengthman's house
- Address
- Canal Round House, London Road, Chalford
- OS grid reference
- SO 891 024
- Coordinates
- 51.7209, -2.15832
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Canal Round House is a Grade II listed canal lengthman's house built between 1790 and 1791 for the Thames and Severn Canal. It is constructed from coursed rubble limestone, which was formerly rendered, and features a rendered brick chimney and a concrete tile roof. The building is circular and consists of three storeys with an attic, along with a lean-to on the east side.
The house has a range of pointed arched windows with plain raised architraves and small paned timber casements on the east and west sides. The west side includes a square-headed doorway that used to serve as a stable entrance but now has a pair of glazed doors. On the north side, there is a pointed arched doorway at the upper floor level, which has a plank door and a coloured glass fanlight above it. Stone steps with decorative iron handrails lead up to this doorway. The building features plain bands at the upper floor and eaves levels, and there is an eaves-mounted chimney on the south side. The conical roof has a flush rooflight.
The interior has not been inspected. This house is one of several lengthman's houses of this type along the canal, with another identical example located at Cerney Wick in Latton, Wiltshire.
Local climate
Canal Round House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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