Myrtle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rochford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1983. A Medieval Cottage.

Myrtle Cottage

WRENN ID
hidden-string-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rochford
Constituency
Southend East and Rochford MP: Mr Bayo Alaba (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 July 1983
Type
Cottage
Period
Medieval
Address
Myrtle Cottage, School Lane, Barling Magna
OS grid reference
TQ 930 892
Coordinates
51.56891, 0.78474
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Myrtle Cottage is a cottage with origins in the 15th century, featuring alterations and additions from the 17th century and later. It has a timber frame with plaster and a red plain tiled roof. The cottage has an off-centre right red brick chimney stack and was undergoing restoration at the time of the last survey. It includes two gabled dormers, is one storey high with attics, and has a dormer at the rear. The front has a three-window range of small paned casements. There is a 20th-century open gabled porch with a vertically boarded door and a simple surround. A date inscription of 1738 can be found on the rear dormer. Inside, there is evidence of the original open hall, which features a substantial studded and braced partition.

Local climate

Myrtle Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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