THE ROUND HOUSE UMBRELLA HOUSE

THE ROUND HOUSE, 1, BURCOTGATE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210173
Date first listed:: 08-Apr-1983
List Entry Name:: THE ROUND HOUSE UMBRELLA HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE ROUND HOUSE, 1, BURCOTGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210173
Date first listed:: 08-Apr-1983
List Entry Name:: THE ROUND HOUSE UMBRELLA HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE ROUND HOUSE, 1, BURCOTGATE
Statutory Address 2:: UMBRELLA HOUSE, 1, BURCOTGATE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE ROUND HOUSE, 1, BURCOTGATE
Statutory Address:: UMBRELLA HOUSE, 1, BURCOTGATE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Telford and Wrekin (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wrockwardine
National Grid Reference:: SJ 61876 10639

Details

WROCKWARDINE BURCOTGATE 1. 5362 No. 1 (The Round House or Umbrella House) SJ 61SW 27/627

II

2. Dated 1835. Single storey tollhouse said to have been designed by Thomas Telford. Ashlar with low pitched hipped slate roof with very widely overhanging eaves. 1:3:1 windows, centre breaks forward as canted bay. Two-light stone mullion windows with glazing bars in plain architraves. Doorway in right hand return of bay with moulded stone architrave and door with diamond panels and ornate wrought ironwork. Central ashlar stack with group of 4 circular shafts linked by moulded cornice.

Listing NGR: SJ6187610639

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Legacy System number:: 362483
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.