Tower on Hermitage Hill at Sd 3301 4761 is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1972. Summerhouse.
Tower on Hermitage Hill at Sd 3301 4761
- WRENN ID
- roaming-corridor-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1972
- Type
- Summerhouse
- Address
- Tower on Hermitage Hill at Sd 3301 4761, Priory Road, Ulverston
- OS grid reference
- SD 301 760
- Coordinates
- 54.17589, -3.0721
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tower on Hermitage Hill is a summerhouse built in the early 19th century and restored in the 1980s. It is constructed of rubble and covered with cement slurry, with an octagonal plan and two storeys. The building features a storey band and a corbel table below the parapet. On the south side, there is a corbelled turret that projects at parapet level. The joinery is made of late 20th century stained hardwood. The ground floor has three openings with plain reveals and pointed arches, which now contain glazed doors, while a fourth opening is blocked. The first floor has four windows with plain reveals and segmental heads. Below the turret, there is a narrow blind recess.
Local climate
Tower on Hermitage Hill at Sd 3301 4761 sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,650 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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