Roundhouse Explained
Roundhouse may refer to:
Building 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 small jail
- Roundhouse (windmill), the substructure of a post mill which encloses the trestle and forms a storage facility
- Railway roundhouse, a building used by railroads for servicing locomotives
- Roundhouse, or gin gang, an extension to a threshing barn
Specific structures
Australia
Canada
United Kingdom
- 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
- St Giles's Roundhouse, a prison in London, England
- That Roundhouse, a private eco-dwelling within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in Wales
- The Round House (Havering), a Georgian villa in outer London
- The Round House, Stanton Drew, 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) or Garden of Paradise, an 1847 adobe landmark
- Round House, the exercise term for a DEFCON 3 alert
Russia
Nicknames
Elsewhere
Arts and entertainment
Other uses
- Roundhouse punch in boxing, delivered in a circular direction, instead of a straight line
- Roundhouse kick, a martial arts technique
- Roundhouse clinic, addiction services in Boston, MA