Roundhouse may refer to:

Architecture and buildings

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 kind of house with circular walls, prehistoric and modern, all over the world **

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 ...

, an Iron Age stone building found in the northern and western parts of mainland Scotland, the Northern Isles and the Hebrides * Roundhouse (lock-up), a small jail *

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 grou ...

, the substructure of a post mill which encloses the trestle and forms a storage facility *

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

, a building used by railroads for servicing 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 19 ...

, an extension to a threshing barn

Australia

Round House (Western Australia) The Round House was the first permanent building built in the Swan River Colony. Built in late 1830 and opened in 1831, it is the oldest building still standing in Western Australia. It is located at Arthur Head in Fremantle, and recent heri ...

, an historic structure in Fremantle, originally used as a jail *

Broadmeadow roundhouse Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot (NSW depot number 2) was a large locomotive depot consisting of two roundhouse buildings and associated facilities constructed by the New South Wales Government Railways adjacent to the marshalling yard on the Main ...

, a former railway roundhouse at the Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot * Goulburn roundhouse, a former railway roundhouse at the Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre *

Valley Heights roundhouse The ''Valley Heights Rail Museum'' is a railway museum located in Valley Heights, New South Wales, Australia. The facility is located north-west of Valley Heights railway station. The museum is operated by two partner organisations: * The Val ...

, 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 Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Roundhouse in Victoria, British Columbia, was completed in 1913 and designated a historic building in 1992. The roundhouse has been virtually unchanged since its construction. It is surrounded by railway shops and o ...

United Kingdom

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

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

Dagenham Roundhouse Dagenham Roundhouse is a 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, filmmakers ...

, a pub and venue in East London *

Horton Rounds Horton Rounds is a modernist house in the village of Horton, Northamptonshire. The house was built in 1966 by A. A. J. Marshman, a senior partner in Marshman, Warren and Taylor, a regional architectural practice. In September 2012 the house wa ...

, 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 sited in woods within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park near the town of Newport in Wales. It was constructed without planning permission during the winter of 1997/1998 by Tony Wrench and Jane Faith and hel ...

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

The Round House (Outer London) 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 (architect), John Plaw for William Sheldon. The house is ...

, 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 thatched building is hexagonal in plan. It is on ...

, a former toll house in Somerset *

Round House (London Zoo) London Zoo, also known as ZSL London Zoo or London Zoological Gardens is the world's oldest scientific zoo. It was opened in London on 27 April 1828, and was originally intended to be used as a collection for science, scientific study. In 1831 o ...

, 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) The Round House (or "Circambulant House") is a house in Wilton, Connecticut, built by architect Richard T. Foster in 1968. The building can rotate 360 degrees, providing every room a view of the landscape. It combines engineering from Germany, loc ...

, a rotating residence designed by Richard Foster *

Round House (Somerville, Massachusetts) The Round House is a cylindrical, wood-frame residential building at 36 Atherton Street in the Spring Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. It was built in 1856 by hardware manufacturer Enoch Robinson, and is considered ...

Roundhouse Railroad Museum The Georgia State Railroad Museum (formerly the Roundhouse Railroad Museum) is a museum in Savannah, Georgia located at a historic Central of Georgia Railway site. It includes parts of the Central of Georgia Railway: Savannah Shops and Terminal Fac ...

, 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, below Third in downtown Los Angeles, California. History The land comprising several lots situated on Main Street below Third Street was granted on ...

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. (DEFCON is not mentioned in the 2010 and newer document) The DEFCON system was developed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and unified and spec ...

alert

Russia

The Round Houses in Moscow ''The Round Houses'' in Moscow are nine-floors residential buildings built circularly, in Western Moscow in 1970, according to a project by architect Yevgeny Stamo and engineer Aleksandr Markelov. They are located at and They were built in a v ...

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 of the Wichi ...

, 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 f ...

, Chattanooga, Tennessee *

New Mexico State Capitol The New Mexico State Capitol, located in Santa Fe at 490 Old Santa Fe Trail, is the seat of government of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the only round state capitol in the United States and is known informally as "the Roundhouse". Desig ...

, Santa Fe, New Mexico *

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

headquarters, Pennsylvania

Elsewhere

Round House (Nunspeet, Netherlands) Roundhouse may refer to: Architecture and buildings Types * Roundhouse (dwelling), a kind of house with circular walls, prehistoric and modern, all over the world **Atlantic roundhouse, an Iron Age stone building found in the northern and wester ...

Round House (Odessa) Mayurov House, also known as the Roundhouse is a famous building in Odesa, Ukraine. It is located in the city center on the Hretska Ploshcha (Greek Square), dividing it into two parts: a round part (with a well in past) and the Greek Market. Hist ...

, a historic building in Odessa, Ukraine

Arts and entertainment

* ''Roundhouse'' (album), a 1990 album by Tar * ''Roundhouse'' (periodical), a magazine publication by the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum * ''Roundhouse'' (TV series), a Nickelodeon television show *

Round House Theatre Round House Theatre is a nonprofit theater company based in Bethesda, Maryland. History Round House began life in 1970 as “Street ’70”, a program of the Montgomery County Department of Recreation that provided educational outreach in th ...

, 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. Early life and education Bron was born in Hendon, Middlesex, into a Jewish family, the elder brother of actress Eleanor Bron. Their fat ...

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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Roundhouse