The Hermitage is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1975. House.
The Hermitage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-gable-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Hermitage, Castle Road, Sandgate
- OS grid reference
- TR 207 352
- Coordinates
- 51.07373, 1.1498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hermitage is a mid-19th century Gothic house located on Castle Road in Sandgate. It has an irregular shape and is built of stone rubble, standing two to three storeys tall. The front elevation features two projecting gables with kneelers and has tiled roofs. The windows are two or three light mullioned casements, each with stone relieving arches. A projecting stone hipped porch, also with kneelers, contains the name of the house and an arched doorcase.
The Hermitage is part of a group that includes No 2 Sandgate Castle, York Cottage, and the gatepiers to The White Lodge, which are all of local interest.
Local climate
The Hermitage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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