The Little Hermitage is a Grade II listed building in the Gravesham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
The Little Hermitage
- WRENN ID
- slow-hammer-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gravesham
- Constituency
- Gravesham MP: Dr Lauren Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Little Hermitage, Gravesend Road, Higham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 720 705
- Coordinates
- 51.40806, 0.47283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Little Hermitage is an early 19th-century house made of stuccoed brick, standing two stories tall. It represents the central block of a larger house, as the side wings have been demolished. The building features a low-pitched slated roof with deeply overhanging eaves. A two-story portico spans the entire front, supported by Doric columns and topped with a simple entablature. The house has sash windows, with those on the ground floor reaching down to floor level and retaining their glazing bars. The sides and rear of the house are quite plain, with an irregularly shaped addition to the west. Inside, there is a staircase with shaped balusters and a wreathed mahogany handrail, along with decorative door casings and original marble chimney pieces.
Local climate
The Little Hermitage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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