The Hermitage and Enclosing Garden Wall at the Front is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Hermitage and Enclosing Garden Wall at the Front
- WRENN ID
- brooding-niche-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 August 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Hermitage and Enclosing Garden Wall at the Front, St. Catherine, BA1 8HE
- OS grid reference
- ST 768 708
- Coordinates
- 51.43633, -2.33446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hermitage is a detached house dating back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is built of rubble with freestone dressings, and has a slate roof with raised verges and ashlar stacks. The house is arranged in an L-shape, with two storeys, attics, and cellars.
The main part of the house has windows with single and two lights, featuring ovolo moulded and chamfered mullions and surrounds, some of which are under dripmoulds. A central, gabled porch, raised above the cellar, is approached by a flight of steps and has a segmental-headed outer doorway. A single-storey and basement extension is set back to the right, with a glazing bar sash window. To the left is a projecting two-bay wing, with the outer bay lower in height; this section has two-light casement windows in moulded mullions and surrounds, under dripmoulds. The two windows to the left of this wing have cinquefoil and trefoil heads, while the south gable end has two glazing bar sash windows on the ground floor.
A front garden wall, constructed of ashlar, runs along the front of the property and features an arcaded design with a moulded cornice.
Local climate
The Hermitage and Enclosing Garden Wall at the Front receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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