Hermitage Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1983. House.
Hermitage Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-portal-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hermitage Cottage, Freshford
- OS grid reference
- ST 784 597
- Coordinates
- 51.33615, -2.31093
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hermitage Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century to the early 18th century. It is constructed of rubble with a modern tiled roof featuring coped raised verges. The building has two storeys and an attic, with two windows and a central door. The windows are three-light casements with moulded stone mullions and surrounds beneath a cornice. The south-east gable includes a partially blocked four-light casement under a drip mould on the ground floor and a single-light casement with a cusped head in the attic. The central door is modern and set in a chamfered plain stone surround.
Local climate
Hermitage Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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