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 western parts of mainland Scotland, the Northern Isles and the Hebrides *

Roundhouse (lock-up) A village lock-up is a historic building once used for the temporary detention of people in England and Wales, mostly where official prisons or criminal courts were beyond easy walking distance. Lockups were often used for the confinement of dru ...

, 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, an extension to a threshing barn

Australia

* Round House (Western Australia), 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 The Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre is located at the heritage-listed former railway workshops in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, on the Main Southern railway line. Now a museum, it is also known as the Goulburn Rail Workshop and Goulburn Ro ...

, 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), 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), 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, 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 alert

Russia

* The Round Houses in Moscow

Nicknames

* Charles Koch Arena, Wichita, Kansas * McKenzie Arena, Chattanooga, Tennessee * New Mexico State Capitol, Santa Fe, New Mexico * Philadelphia Police Department 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 the ...

, a non-profit theater production company in Maryland * ''The Round House'' (novel), a 2011 novel by Louise Erdrich *

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

, 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 fath ...

in 1975

Other uses

* Roundhouse punch in boxing, delivered in a circular direction, instead of a straight line * Roundhouse kick, a martial arts technique {{DEFAULTSORT:Roundhouse