The Hermitage is a Grade II listed building in the Stockton-on-Tees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1951. Former school, residence.
The Hermitage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-cornice-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Constituency
- Stockton North MP: Chris McDonald (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1951
- Type
- Former school, residence
- Address
- The Hermitage, 28, the Green
- OS grid reference
- NZ 443 221
- Coordinates
- 54.59296, -1.31517
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hermitage is a former grammar school situated on the north side of Norton The Green, facing the old line of Mill Lane. It is believed to have medieval origins and was supposedly a residence for the canons of St Mary's Church, which was collegiate. The building features a fine vaulted collar, although the ground floor is likely from the 17th century. Most of the structure dates from the 18th and early 19th centuries.
The building is two storeys tall with three windows, and it includes a later single-storey schoolroom wing with three windows. The ground floor of the main building is constructed of ashlar stone, with roughcast above, and it has a brick modillion cornice above the ground floor. The windows are later glazed sash windows, with glazing bars in the wing. The west gable end has a blocked mullion window. The roof is pantiled and hipped to the west, featuring a large central stack. The schoolroom wing has a fall hipped pantiled roof. Additionally, there is a two-storey, one-window extension to the north, which is gabled and has kneelers.
Local climate
The Hermitage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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