The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Round House
- WRENN ID
- idle-hinge-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Round House, Pipe Passage, Lewes, BN7 1YQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 412 100
- Coordinates
- 50.87278, 0.00635
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House is an 1802 mill base, later converted into a house. The mill was removed to the foot of Race Hill in 1835. It is constructed of flint with red brick bands and dressings, and has a low-pitched slate roof. The building is octagonal in plan, with walls that noticeably slant inwards. It has one and a half storeys, with semi-dormers and a red brick stack at the roof apex. The ground floor has glazing bar sashes, while the upper floor has sliding sashes in alternate faces of the octagon. The entrance is located on the south side, within a high, deep, segment-headed recess. A 19th-century extension is attached to the west. The Round House was formerly the home of the novelist Virginia Woolf.
Local climate
The Round House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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