Roundhouse (disambiguation)

The name Roundhouse may refer to:

Buildings

Generic

• A common description for the round buildings using the Panopticon cell layout for a prison or other type of confining institution
• A roundhouse is a building used by railroads for servicing locomotives.
• Atlantic roundhouse, an Iron Age stone building found in the northern and western parts of mainland Scotland, the Northern Isles and the Hebrides
• Round-house (lock-up), a small prison
• Roundhouse (dwelling), a kind of house with circular walls, constructed during both the Iron Age and later, found in many areas of the world.
• Roundhouse or gin gang, an extension to a threshing barn
• The substructure of a post mill which encloses the trestle and forms a storage facility

Specific

Australia

• Round House, an historic structure in Fremantle, Western Australia, originally use as a jail
• The Roundhouse, an entertainment venue at the University of New South Wales
• The Broadmeadow roundhouse at the Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot
• The Goulburn roundhouse at the Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre
• The Valley Heights roundhouse at the Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum

Netherlands

• Round House (Nunspeet, Netherlands)

United States

• Round House (Somerville, Massachusetts)

United Kingdom

• 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 (venue), an entertainment venue in Chalk Farm, London, England
• St Giles's Roundhouse, a prison in London, England
• That Roundhouse, a private dwelling within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in Wales
• The Round House, a Georgian villa in outer London
• The Round House, Stanton Drew, an old toll house in Somerset

Other uses

• Roundhouse kick, a martial arts technique
• Roundhouse (periodical), a magazine publication by the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum
• Roundhouse Railroad Museum, in Savannah, Georgia, United States
• Roundhouse (TV series), a Nickelodeon television show
• The Round House (novel), a 2011 prize-winning novel by Louise Erdrich

As a nickname

"Roundhouse" is a nickname for:

• The Charles Koch Arena in Wichita, Kansas, United States
• The McKenzie Arena in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
• The New Mexico State Capitol in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
• The Philadelphia Police Department's headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States