The Round House
THE ROUND HOUSE, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166304
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Round House
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROUND HOUSE, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166304
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Round House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROUND HOUSE, LONDON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROUND HOUSE, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Harlow (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 47939 10406
Details
TL 479 104 MATCHING LONDON ROAD, The Round House 2/35 (formerly listed as the Round 12.1.83 House Cottage under Harrow Tye) II
Lodge cottage, late C18, extended in early C20. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. Octagonal, with central chimney stack, in 2 rooms at each floor, built as 2 cottages, now combined. Extension to SE with chimney stack at end, early C20. Minor lean-to extensions to NE and W. 2 storeys. Pyramidal stop roof, extended with a gable to SE All existing doors and windows C20. On upper floor of NW elevation a blocked window, designed externally to resemble a four-petalled flower, with a diamond-shaped frame visible internally through wallpaper. A similar diamond-shaped window in. SE elevation, visible through wallpaper inside the extension. In the tithe award of 1849 this building was occupied as 2 tenements (then in the parish of Harlow). It is marked on the First Edition 1" Ordnance Survey c.1802. Originally it was a lodge cottage on the western approach to Hubbards Ball, although this access is now interrupted.
Listing NGR: TL4793910406
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118166
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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