The Gatehouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. House. 8 related planning applications.
The Gatehouse
- WRENN ID
- late-rood-rowan
- 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 Gatehouse, 22, the Street, Braughing, SG11 2QF
- OS grid reference
- TL 397 251
- Coordinates
- 51.90765, 0.03048
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late medieval house, significantly restored in the 1950s. It is timber-framed, with roughcast plaster and exposed framing on two jetties facing west. The ground-floor walls have been replaced with plastered brickwork. The roof is steep, covered in old red tiles, and features hipped gables.
The house originally comprised an open hall with two crosswings. The jettied ends of the crosswings have close studding with curved tension braces. A cross passage within the north wing provides entry to the hall, and two short screens remain, forming a vestigial spire-truss. A staircase originally rose at the rear of the north wing, and a two-light window remains to illuminate it. The west front now has three 20th-century two-light casement windows on the ground floor, a similar window in each jettied wing, a small window under the eaves in the centre, and a mullioned window near the north wing. A large external chimney is situated on the south end.
The north wing has a simple collar-rafter roof; the narrower south wing features a plain crown-post roof with two-way struts. Within the partition at the upper (south) end of the hall, there are pegholes indicative of the original benches.
Local climate
The Gatehouse 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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