Building record 1305300000 - THE ROUND HOUSE & PINK COTTAGE

Grade II. Two houses. C16 cottage to left, altered and extended C20, with round tower to right dated IF 1730 on internal plaque. Cottage is rendered and colourwashed with old tile roof. Brick chimney with grouped shafts to right at junction with tower. One storey and attic, 3 bays, the left bay C20 with door and catslide verandah, Right bays each have gable to front and paired barred wooden casements. Another similar casement to ground floor between right bays. C20 rear wing. Interior has timber framing, possibly with cruck truss to centre, and large fireplace with chamfered arched lintel. Tower is of dressed chalk with flint plinth and deep moulded brick modillion cornice. Conical tiled roof. 2 storeys. C20 paired wooden casement inserted to ground floor front; paired casements in altered openings to both floors of right side, the lower metal casement retaining original segmental arch and internal lintel. Original entries to both floors of tower are now enclosed in small C19 flint and brick wing to rear. Rear wing extended C20. Interior has stop-chamfered beams supporting upper floor, blocked fireplaces, and date stone in upper room. RCHM I p.156. MON.4 (B1).
Buildings report held at NMR (B2).