Myrtle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1981. House. 2 related planning applications.
Myrtle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lone-gargoyle-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Myrtle Cottage, 67, Hay Street, Steeple Morden, SG8 0PD
- OS grid reference
- TL 286 429
- Coordinates
- 52.07015, -0.12467
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Myrtle Cottage is an early 19th-century house located on the west side of Hay Street in Steeple Morden. The building is timber-framed or clay batt with a roughcast render and a deep painted brick plinth. It has two 20th-century red brick stacks. The cottage has two ground floor boarded doors and four ground floor casement windows. The first floor has five casement windows.
Local climate
Myrtle Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 1997
- 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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