Habitat is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 1999. Building.
Habitat
- WRENN ID
- under-wall-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1999
- Type
- Building
- Address
- Habitat, Castle
- OS grid reference
- ST 184 763
- Coordinates
- 51.47989, -3.17626
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Habitat is a two-storey building constructed with smooth ashlar stone. It features three bays facing The Hayes, with tall arches on the ground floor, the central arch being broader than the others. The upper floor has broad rectangular windows. On Hill's Street, there are nine windows above eight arches, with the right arch being elliptical. At the rear, the building has three tall arches with four windows above them. The windows are fitted with metal glazing, and there is metal panelling within the arches.
Local climate
Habitat sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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