Myrtle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1989. House. 1 related planning application.

Myrtle Cottage

WRENN ID
graven-wattle-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 January 1989
Type
House
Address
Myrtle Cottage, North Petherwin, PL15 8NB
OS grid reference
SX 264 920
Coordinates
50.70234, -4.45864
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Myrtle Cottage is a house that likely dates back to the 17th century. It is constructed from rendered and painted stone, rubble, and cob, topped with a rag slate roof featuring gable ends. The building has a two-room and cross passage layout, with a larger hall-kitchen on the left heated by a stone rubble end stack, and a smaller unheated room on the right.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a nearly symmetrical front with two windows, which are 19th-century two-light casements. There is a late 19th-century door located to the right of the center, accompanied by a 20th-century porch. The rear elevation features a window from around the 18th century with early leaded glass. Inside, there are chamfered floor joists from the 17th century. The roof structure has not been inspected. The cottage retains especially unaltered and unspoilt front and rear elevations.

Local climate

Myrtle Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% 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 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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