Myrtle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. Cottage.

Myrtle Cottage

WRENN ID
endless-roof-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Constituency
Bournemouth West MP: Jessica Toale (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 1972
Type
Cottage
Address
Myrtle Cottage, Wallisdown Road
OS grid reference
SZ 073 941
Coordinates
50.74679, -1.89752
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Myrtle Cottage is a picturesque cottage located on a pathway in a pinewood, built around 1850. The cottage features a ground floor and semi-attic made of red brick with some grey headers. It has an L-shaped plan that is diagonal to the pathway, with a lean-to timber verandah-porch set across the angle. The windows are mullioned casements with diamond lattice glazing, consisting of three lights with a transom on the ground floor and two lights on the first floor. The roofs are steeply pitched and adorned with ornamental scalloped tiles arranged in bands that alternate with ordinary tiles, extending low at the rear. The eaves are overhanging, and the bargeboards are plain. The gable ends have canted bays with hipped roofs on the ground floor. There is a diagonally set pair of chimneystacks on the ridge and a projecting single-storey storehouse wing to the north-west. All the listed buildings in Wallisdown Road and Columbia Road form a group.

Local climate

Myrtle Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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