Myrtle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Myrtle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-casement-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Myrtle Cottage, Newmarket Road, Risby
- OS grid reference
- TL 789 660
- Coordinates
- 52.26311, 0.62046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Myrtle Cottage is an 18th-century cottage featuring a lobby entrance and a two-cell plan. The building stands one and a half storeys high with attics. It is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof that includes gabled casement dormers and an axial red brick chimney. The cottage has 19th and 20th-century casement windows and a 20th-century entrance door.
Local climate
Myrtle Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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