The Round House (That Part in Burton Latimer County Parish) and Attached Barn to Right is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1992. Farmhouse.
The Round House (That Part in Burton Latimer County Parish) and Attached Barn to Right
- WRENN ID
- half-gallery-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1992
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Round House (That Part in Burton Latimer County Parish) and Attached Barn to Right, Thrapston Road
- OS grid reference
- SP 934 748
- Coordinates
- 52.36417, -0.62863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House and the attached barn to the right is a farmhouse located in Burton Latimer, dating from the early to mid-19th century, with some alterations made in the late 20th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features slate roofs with late 20th-century brick stacks. The building is arranged in an L-plan, consisting of a three-storey round tower with two-storey blocks to the right and rear.
The tower has a large cross-shaped rendered panel that is painted with the words "Panorama/Waterloo/Victory/June 18/A.D./1815". Above this panel is an oculus, and on either side, at both ground and first floor levels, are two-light windows with stone flat-arched heads and 20th-century casements. The tower is topped with a conical roof that has a small railed viewing platform and a central chimney.
The block to the right, likely an addition, features a blocked door that has been converted into a window on the left (the porch has been removed) and three-light windows on both the ground and first floors, all with segmental gauged stone heads and 20th-century casements. There is an end stack and a low link to the barn on the right, which is made of limestone rubble and has a pantiled roof.
The block at the rear, originally a stable, has been heightened and significantly altered to create domestic accommodation, which includes the current entrance. The interior has been modified, and the original staircase has been removed. The Round House was built for the Arbuthnot family of nearby Woodford House after a visit from the Duke of Wellington, who noted that the landscape reminded him of Waterloo. Additionally, the site was used for the film "The Battle of Waterloo," directed by Charles Weston for the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company in 1913.
Local climate
The Round House (That Part in Burton Latimer County Parish) and Attached Barn to Right sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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