Myrtle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1950. Cottage.
Myrtle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- patient-pediment-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1950
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Myrtle Cottage, St Peter's Hill, Penzance
- OS grid reference
- SW 463 284
- Coordinates
- 50.10155, -5.5489
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Myrtle Cottage is a late 18th-century building located on St Peter's Hill in Newlyn. The cottage features a brick façade with a granite plinth, string course, and quoins. It has a slate roof with gable ends and a wooden eaves cornice adorned with triglyphs, rosettes, and dentils. The front of the cottage includes two 2-storey bow windows and a central doorcase supported by fluted wooden Doric half columns, topped with a slightly bowed entablature above a semi-arched doorway. The sides and rear of the building are constructed of uncoursed rubble, which is partly colour-washed and partly stuccoed. The west side is built against the ground, revealing only the top half of the first floor. Inside, there is a staircase, fireplaces, and panelled doors.
Local climate
Myrtle Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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