Roundhouse may refer to:

Building types

Roundhouse (dwelling) A roundhouse is a type of house with a circular plan, usually with a conical roof. In the later part of the 20th century, modern designs of roundhouse eco-buildings were constructed with materials such as cob, cordwood or straw bale walls and ...

, a house with circular walls **

Atlantic roundhouse In archaeology, an Atlantic roundhouse is an Iron Age stone building found in the northern and western parts of mainland Scotland, the Northern Isles and the Hebrides. Circular houses were the predominant architectural style of the British landsc ...

, a type of Iron Age stone building in Scotland *

Roundhouse (windmill) A roundhouse is the part of a post mill that encloses the trestle. It serves two functions; to protect the trestle from the weather and to provide storage space. Post mills Early medieval post mills had their trestles partly buried in the gro ...

, the substructure of a windmill *

Railway roundhouse A railway roundhouse is a building with a circular or semicircular shape used by rail transport, railways for servicing and storing locomotives. Traditionally, though not always the case today, these buildings contained or were adjacent to a Rail ...

, a circular shed for locomotives * Roundhouse, or

gin gang A gin gang, wheelhouse, roundhouse or horse-engine house is a structure built to enclose a horse engine, usually circular but sometimes square or octagonal, attached to a threshing barn. Most were built in England in the late 18th and early 19th ...

, an extension to a threshing barn

Specific structures

Australia

Round House (Western Australia) The Round House was the first permanent building built in the Swan River Colony. Constructed in late 1830 and opened in 1831, it is the second oldest surviving European building in Western Australia, after the Wiebbe Hayes Stone Fort on West ...

, an historic structure in Fremantle, originally used as a jail * Broadmeadow roundhouse, a former railway roundhouse at the Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot * Goulburn roundhouse, a former railway roundhouse at the Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre * Valley Heights roundhouse, a former railway roundhouse at the Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum * The Roundhouse, an entertainment venue at the University of New South Wales

Canada

* Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Roundhouse

United Kingdom

Roundhouse (venue) The Roundhouse is a performing arts and concert venue at the Grade II* listed former Railway roundhouse, railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England. The building was erected in 1846–1847 by the London & North Western Railway as a Rai ...

, an entertainment venue and former railway roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London, England *

Dagenham Roundhouse Dagenham Roundhouse is a Public house, pub and music venue located in Dagenham, London, England. It was established in 1969 as the "Village Blues Club", and from then until 1975 it was considered east London's premier rock music venue. In 2007 ...

, a pub and venue in East London * Horton Rounds, a Grade II listed house in Northamptonshire, England, sometimes referred to as the Round House * St Giles's Roundhouse, a prison in London, England *

That Roundhouse That Roundhouse is a Roundhouse (dwelling), roundhouse sited in woods within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park near the town of Newport, Pembrokeshire, Newport in Wales. It was constructed without planning permission during the winter of 19 ...

, a private eco-dwelling within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in Wales *

The Round House (Havering) The Round House is a Grade II* listed late Georgian elliptical stuccoed villa located on Broxhill Road in Havering-atte-Bower, London. The house was built between 1792 and 1794 by John Plaw for William Sheldon. It was later home to the rose bree ...

, a Georgian villa in outer London *

The Round House, Stanton Drew The Round House (also known as The Toll House) at Stanton Drew in the English county of Somerset was built in the 18th century. It has been designated as a Grade II listed building. The two-storey thatch Thatching is the craft of building a r ...

, a former toll house in Somerset * Round House (London Zoo), a 1933 gorilla house in the Modernist style

United States

* Round House (Barnstable, Massachusetts), 1930, a three-story wood frame round house * Round House (Connecticut), a rotating residence designed by Richard Foster * Round House (Somerville, Massachusetts) * Roundhouse Railroad Museum, now the Georgia State Railroad Museum, in Savannah, Georgia, United States *

Round House (Los Angeles) Round House (later, Garden of Paradise) was a landmark building on the west side of Main Street (Los Angeles), Main Street, below 3rd Street, Los Angeles, Third in downtown Los Angeles, California. History The land comprising several lots situat ...

or Garden of Paradise, an 1847 adobe landmark * Round House, the exercise term for a

DEFCON 3 The defense readiness condition (DEFCON) is an alert state used by the United States Armed Forces. For security reasons, the U.S. military does not announce a DEFCON level to the public. The DEFCON system was developed by the Joint Chiefs of Sta ...

alert

Russia

* The Round Houses in Moscow

Nicknames

Charles Koch Arena Charles Koch Arena is a 10,506-seat multi-purpose arena in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is located on the southeast corner of 21st and Hillside on the campus of Wichita State University in northeast Wichita. The arena is home to the Wic ...

, Wichita, Kansas *

McKenzie Arena McKenzie Arena (also called "The Roundhouse") is the primary basketball arena for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) in Chattanooga in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It replaced Maclellan Gymnasium, a 4,177-seat gymnasium now used ...

, Chattanooga, Tennessee *

New Mexico State Capitol The New Mexico State Capitol is the seat of government of the U.S. state of New Mexico, located in its capital city of Santa Fe. It houses both chambers of the New Mexico Legislature and the offices of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Secr ...

, Santa Fe, New Mexico *

Philadelphia Police Department The Philadelphia Police Department (PPD, Philly PD, or Philly Police) is the police agency responsible for law enforcement and investigations within the County and City of Philadelphia. The PPD is one of the oldest municipal police agencies, f ...

headquarters, Pennsylvania

Elsewhere

Round House (Nunspeet, Netherlands) The Round House (Dutch: ''Ronde Huis'') was a Rotunda (architecture), round villa in the Netherlands, located in the municipality of Nunspeet. It was demolished in 1967 but its traces remain visible in the landscape. History Nieuw Nunspeet In 18 ...

* Round House (Odesa), a historic building in Odesa, Ukraine * African round hut (

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

)

Arts and entertainment

* ''Roundhouse'' (album), a 1990 album by Tar * ''Roundhouse'' (periodical), a magazine publication of

Transport Heritage NSW Transport Heritage NSW is a body established by the Government of New South Wales to manage the state’s rail heritage collection and provide support to the broader transport (bus, tram, rail) heritage sector in NSW. It operates the NSW Rail M ...

(formerly the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum) * ''Roundhouse'' (TV series), a Nickelodeon television show *

Round House Theatre Round House Theatre is an American professional theater company located in Bethesda, Maryland. Founded in 1978, it operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The theater produces contemporary plays and classic works, with a focus on American ...

, a non-profit theater production company in Maryland * ''The Round House'' (novel), a 2011 novel by Louise Erdrich * Roundhouse Recording Studios, a London recording studio founded by

Gerry Bron Gerald Lincoln "Gerry" Bron (1 March 1933 – 18 June 2012) was an English record producer and band manager. Gerry married Penny Bron in 1982. Early life and education Bron was born in Hendon, Middlesex, into a Jewish family, the elder brother of ...

in 1975

Other uses

* Roundhouse punch in boxing, delivered in a circular direction, instead of a straight line *

Roundhouse kick A roundhouse kick (also known as round kick or turning kick) is a kick in which the practitioner lifts the knee while turning the supporting foot and body in a semicircular motion, extending the leg striking with the lower part of the shin and/ ...

, a martial arts technique * Roundhouse clinic, addiction services in

Boston, MA Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

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