 The stonework and gardens recall the stone structures and intensively modified rural landscapes of northern Italy.The place has strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group in New South Wales for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.The Hermit's Cave Complex has social significance at the local level for the Griffith community, and in particular the Italian community of Griffith and the surrounding Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, as an important element of local folklore.