Listed Building: THE ROUND HOUSE (THAT PART IN WOODFORD CIVIL PARISH) AND ATTACHED BARN (4/170)

Farmhouse. Early and mid C19 with late C20 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble with slate roofs and C20 brick stacks. L-plan, formed by 3-storey round tower with 2-storey blocks to right and rear. Tower has large cross-shaped rendered panel painted with the words "Panorama/Waterloo/Victory/June 18/A.D./1815". Above is an oculus and to left and right, at ground and first floor level, are 2-light windows with stone flat-arched heads and C20 casements. Conical roof, topped by small railed viewing platform and central chimney. Block to right probably an addition, has a blocked door, now window, to left (porch removed) and 3-light windows to right of ground floor and to first floor, all with segmental gauged stone heads and C20 casements. End stack, then a low link to barn to right of limestone rubble with pantiled roof. Block to rear, originally stable, heightened and substantially altered to form domestic accommodation, contains present entrance. Interior altered and original stair re oved. Built for the Arbuthnot family of nearby Woodford House (q.v.), after a visit by the Duke of Wellington who apparently mentioned that the countryside reminded him of the land around Waterloo. The film "The Battle of Waterloo", directed by Charles Weston for the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company (1913) was made at this site.

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