The Round House and Pink Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1986. House. 5 related planning applications.
The Round House and Pink Cottage
- WRENN ID
- proud-stair-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Round House and Pink Cottage, Fawley, RG9 6JF
- OS grid reference
- SU 758 874
- Coordinates
- 51.58075, -0.90721
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House and Pink Cottage comprise a 16th-century cottage that has been altered and extended in the 20th century, together with a round tower dated 1730. The cottage is rendered and colourwashed with an old tile roof. It has a brick chimney with grouped shafts at the junction with the tower. The cottage has one storey and an attic, with three bays; the left bay is 20th-century, containing a door and catslide verandah. The right bays each have a gable facing the front and paired barred wooden casements. A further similar casement is located on the ground floor between the right bays. A 20th-century rear wing has been added. The interior of the cottage features timber framing and may include a cruck truss in the centre, along with a large fireplace with a chamfered arched lintel.
The round tower is constructed of dressed chalk with a flint plinth and a deep moulded brick modillion cornice, topped by a conical tiled roof. It has two storeys. A 20th-century paired wooden casement has been inserted to the ground floor front, and paired casements are present in altered openings on both floors of the right side; the lower metal casement retains the original segmental arch and internal lintel. Original entrances to both floors of the tower are now enclosed within a small 19th-century wing built of flint and brick to the rear. A 20th-century extension has been added to the rear wing.
The tower's interior reveals stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops supporting the upper floor, blocked fireplaces, and a date stone in an upper room.
Local climate
The Round House and Pink Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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