The Hermitage is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. House.
The Hermitage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-mortar-claret
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1997
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 804 499
- Coordinates
- 55.74295, -2.31284
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Hermitage is a house from the later 19th century that has undergone some alterations and additions. It is a single-storey building with an attic and features three bays, along with a modern flat-roofed single-storey addition at the rear. The exterior is constructed of stugged ashlar with droved ashlar dressings and includes timber mullions.
On the southeast elevation, there is a modern flush door at the center, accompanied by a narrow two-pane rectangular fanlight. To the right, there is a bipartite window, while to the left, a full-height canted window is present, which is squared off at the eaves height, with a window located in the gablehead above.
The northwest elevation features a finely-harled modern addition that includes a window at the center and another in the bay to the right. A door is flanked by a window to the right in the bay to the left.
The house has timber five-lying-pane sash and case windows and a graded slate roof with exposed rafters at the eaves. There is a gabled dormer in the right bay of the southeast elevation, which has a triangular-headed window, along with brick stacks.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1996.
Local climate
The Hermitage 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 lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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