Continuing my look around the Five Valleys for unusual landmarks I have to admit I like this roundhouse where you would need to find some strange round furniture to fit in it. If you can imagine just the main tower only, without that window at the bottom and the added tower on the right, that is what was built in the mid 1700's.
It was in fact a teasel drying tower when the teasels where used in the cloth industry in the mills nearby. Opposite this roundhouse is a hill called Rack Hill where the cloth was hung out and stretched out on racks, mostly scarlet and blue material for uniforms. Can you imagine how colourful the hillside must have looked in those days.
In modern days it was converted to a house with the extra tower added but I have just noticed on the internet that it's now a successful beauty parlour, which obviously I don't need so have not been inside.
Thanks for all your comments and FAV, view with the dark background.
Lovely shot of this great building which is richly steeped in history = Fav Have a look inside and get a shot for us. You can always say that you were not sure which treatment to have and you would let them know which of course you won't! LOL
A beautiful building and i love the syory. i knew that teasels were used to raise the nap in cloth, but didn't know there were specials towers where they were dried.
Fabulous building. I always had a fantasy of living in a round house when I was a child ever since the playgroup I belonged to when I was 4 years old was in an old theatre which was a round house.
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Lovely shot and interesting story. I'd be too much of a challenge for a beauty parlour. You are top of the class as you were the only person to guess correctly what my abstract picture was. Taken in Cheltenham Sainsbury's home dept yesterday when I was meant to be food shopping!
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