The Hermitage is a Grade II listed building in the Torbay local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1994. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Hermitage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-rotunda-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torbay
- Constituency
- Torbay MP: Steve Darling (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Hermitage, Church Road, TQ1 4QY
- OS grid reference
- SX 918 659
- Coordinates
- 50.48291, -3.52556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hermitage is a house dating from the 1830s, situated close to the church. It is constructed with a plastered exterior and has a slate gabled roof, with stacks featuring rendered shafts and cornices. The building comprises a main block, one room wide, with a rear service wing at right angles and a secondary service wing alongside.
The garden front is symmetrical, with three bays on the ground floor and a single-storey wing to the left. Deep eaves characterise the exterior. The ground floor features three French windows, the central one a 20th-century replacement, all with margin panes. The first floor has two 12-pane sash windows on either side, each accompanied by a cast iron balcony with anthemion decoration, and further supported by secondary timber brackets with roundels. A round-headed window is centrally positioned on the first floor, potentially a converted niche. A parapet and French window are visible on the single-storey wing to the left. A lean-to conservatory with lapped glass sits to the right.
The interior retains original joinery.
Local climate
The Hermitage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- 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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