The Round House
THE ROUND HOUSE, 1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175719
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Round House
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROUND HOUSE, 1
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- Date:
- 2000-08-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/01611/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175719
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Round House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROUND HOUSE, 1
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, 1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Montford
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 43163 15395
Details
MONTFORD C.P. MONTFORD BRIDGE SJ 41 NW 5/149 No. 1 (The Round House) - GV II
Toll house, now house. Late C18 or early C19, with mid-to late C19 addition. Painted sandstone ashlar with pyramidal slate roof. Painted brick addition with slate roof. Octagonal plan. Corner pilaster strips and integral brick lateral stack to north. Small square and rectangular windows, some blind and some with C20 leading. Central door with 6 raised and fielded panels and late C20 gabled brick porch, with leaded C20 windows. One-storey addition to right with integral brick end stack and segmental-headed 2-light wooden casement to front. Interior not inspected. The toll house stands alongside the Holyhead Road at the north-west end of Montford Bridge (q.v.), of 1792 by Thomas Telford. The toll house dates either from this time or forms part of Telford's Holyhead Road improvements, carried out in the years after 1817.
Listing NGR: SJ4316315395
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259216
- 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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