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Latitude: 53.6265 / 53°37'35"N
Longitude: -3.0275 / 3°1'38"W
OS Eastings: 332143
OS Northings: 414926
OS Grid: SD321149
Mapcode National: GBR 7V9H.CR
Mapcode Global: WH867.G3KQ
Plus Code: 9C5RJXGF+H2
Entry Name: The Round House
Listing Date: 29 July 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1379802
English Heritage Legacy ID: 479210
ID on this website: 101379802
Location: Hillside, Sefton, Merseyside, PR8
County: Sefton
Electoral Ward/Division: Duke's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Southport
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Birkdale St James
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: House
SOUTHPORT
SD31SW WATERLOO ROAD, Birkdale
664-1/3/16 (East side)
No.61
The Round House
II
House. 1924-5, by Luke Highton of Southport, for himself, as a
residence with an attic observatory; remodelled internally in
1963 by Preston and Norris. White-painted render on brick;
roof covering concealed except for glazed observatory.
International Modern style. Circular plan.
EXTERIOR: two-and-a-half storeys over a basement, with 2
first-floor windows in the centre of the curved west front
(which breaks forward slightly) and others round the north and
south sides. Roughcast brick plinth, a single sill band and a
double lintel band carried round each floor, a high plain
parapet broken in the centre by a wide attic gable and ramped
up to the rear.
The centre has a pair of 3-light windows at ground floor, with
rectangular lights which have margin panes and X-shaped
geometrical glazing bars in the heads. Pair of matching
2-light windows at first floor, and an oblong attic window in
the gable without glazing bars (probably altered glazing); the
curved north and south sides have 2-light windows to the main
floors like those at the front, and towards the rear on the
north side is a semicircular porch with lancet windows (added
1963).
In the centre of the roof is a glazed circular observatory
window formerly surmounted by a glass dome.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD3214314926
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