The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Round House
- WRENN ID
- graven-outpost-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Round House, Main Street, Alderton, NN12 7LN
- OS grid reference
- SP 740 468
- Coordinates
- 52.11513, -0.91987
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House is a cottage dating from the mid to late 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, with a thatched roof and a brick end stack. The cottage is one storey with an attic, and has a four-window front and a four-unit plan. A 20th-century door is positioned to the right of the centre, with a wooden lintel flanked by three-light casement windows also bearing wooden lintels. Similar casement windows can be found to the far right, and to the far left, while the attic floor features eyebrow dormers with two-light casement windows, each with a wooden lintel. The right-hand end of the cottage facing the road is rounded.
The interior features chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace with a cambered bressumer, displaying ogee-stop-chamfered detailing. A blocked inglenook is also present, along with a collar truss roof. One room in the rounded end of the cottage was formerly used as a barn. The cottage has historically functioned as two or three separate dwellings. A brick ridge stack associated with the blocked inglenook has been dismantled, although the chimney breast remains.
Local climate
The Round House 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
- 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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