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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 reciprocal frame green roofs.
Roundhouse and half-roundhouse, Wellington Road/Graingers Way, Leeds. Both structures were built in approximately 1847 and are listed buildings; the much larger roundhouse is occupied by a commercial vehicle hire company while the half-roundhouse is currently (May 2021) unoccupied.
The largest "as-built" roundhouse ever constructed is believed to have been the Boston and Maine's East Somerville roundhouse outside Boston, today the site of the Boston Engine Terminal. It was built with stalls 112 feet (34.1 m) long, 90 feet (27 m) of open space between the roundhouse and the turntable, and a 110-foot (33.5 m) turntable ...
Stateville's "F-House" cellhouse, commonly known as a "roundhouse", has a panopticon layout which features an armed tower in the center of an open area surrounded by several tiers of cells. F-House was the only remaining "roundhouse" still in use in the United States in the 1990s.
Roundhouse (venue), an entertainment venue and former railway roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London, England Dagenham Roundhouse, a pub and venue in East London; Horton Rounds, a Grade II listed house in Northamptonshire, England, sometimes referred to as the Round House
Roundhouse: a house built with a circular plan. Broch: a Scottish roundhouse. ... Split-level house is a design of house that was commonly built during the 1950s and ...
Star anise’s shape makes it a stellar design element. Cut and stack cinnamon sticks for a wood pile. Use woody herbs like rosemary in evergreen-inspired trims. Cookies and cones.
The roundhouse was a contemporary construction for the development of large steam depots such as Mayne (originally planned as three semi-circular sheds, later modified to two through shed designs), as well as a continuation of the roundhouse construction for other depots such as North Ipswich (1910) and later Willowburn (1928).