The Habit is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. House.
The Habit
- WRENN ID
- far-parapet-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Habit, 24, the Street, Braughing
- OS grid reference
- TL 397 251
- Coordinates
- 51.90772, 0.03048
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Habit is a house located in Braughing village, dating from the 16th century. Originally an open-hall house, it was altered around 1700 and extended to the north, with a rear wing added around 1947. The building features a timber frame that is roughcast, topped with an old red tiled roof. It is a long, two-storey structure with four windows facing west. The house has three-light casement windows and a central door aligned with a large central chimney. The door is set within a 16th-century segmental arched, hollow chamfered heavy doorframe that has sunk spandrels, and it leads to a former screens passage of the hall that extends to the right (south), where there is a two-storey bay at the southern end. The two-storey section to the left of the door was extended by one bay to the north, likely when the hall was floored and a stack was inserted around 1700.
Local climate
The Habit sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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