The Hermitage is a Grade II listed building in the Adur local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1984. House.
The Hermitage
- WRENN ID
- fallen-cobble-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Adur
- Constituency
- East Worthing and Shoreham MP: Tom Rutland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Hermitage, Church Lane, Sompting
- OS grid reference
- TQ 161 052
- Coordinates
- 50.83553, -0.35199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hermitage is a late 18th-century building located on Sompting Church Lane. It has two storeys and features three windows. The exterior is stuccoed and includes a parapet along with a mansarded tiled roof. The windows are fitted with Venetian shutters but do not have glazing bars. There is a later solid porch added to the building.
Local climate
The Hermitage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
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