Roundhouse (disambiguation)
The name Roundhouse may refer to:
Buildings
Generic
- 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
United States
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
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