The Hermits Cave at North End of Lake is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. Grotto.
The Hermits Cave at North End of Lake
- WRENN ID
- knotted-tower-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1986
- Type
- Grotto
- Address
- The Hermits Cave at North End of Lake, Derry Hill & Studley
- OS grid reference
- ST 979 702
- Coordinates
- 51.43159, -2.0304
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hermits Cave, located at the north end of the lake, is a picturesque grotto built between 1785 and 1787 by Honorable C. Hamilton of Painshill and J. Lane of Tisbury. The cave features cyclopean rockwork, with its interior lined with tufa. The vault of the cave is adorned with ammonites that were collected by the Reverend J. Townsend of Pewsey, a notable geologist who lived from 1738 to 1816.
Local climate
The Hermits Cave at North End of Lake receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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