The Round House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1952. A C19 Dovecote.
The Round House
- WRENN ID
- waning-column-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1952
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- The Round House, Kidds Lane, Shepton Mallet
- OS grid reference
- ST 627 435
- Coordinates
- 51.18992, -2.53479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round House is a 19th-century dovecote located on Kidds Lane in Shepton Mallet. It is built from rubble with a tiled roof and features a single circular cell topped with a conical roof. The west side has a doorway with a plank door, while the north side has two 19th-century wooden casement windows with glazing bars. The roof has an apex stone set on a circular base. Inside, there are nesting boxes for doves.
Local climate
The Round House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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