The Roundhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1986. Cottage.
The Roundhouse
- WRENN ID
- lunar-string-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Roundhouse, High Street, Sparkford
- OS grid reference
- ST 603 263
- Coordinates
- 51.03531, -2.5663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roundhouse is a detached cottage dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed from local lias stone that is roughly cut and squared, topped with a hipped thatched roof and a brief chimney stack. The building is single storey with an attic and consists of two bays, with the easterly bay being circular in plan. It features horizontal bar casement windows on both levels of each bay, and there is a plain boarded door set into the curve on the north side. The purpose of the circular portion is not explained; it may have simply been designed as a decorative feature, or it could potentially be the base of a windmill, although no such windmill is recorded at this site in "Windmills of Somerset" by Coutherard and Watts from 1978. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Roundhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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