Myrtle Grove

SW 97 NE 4/4 31.10.86

ST ENDELLION Myrtle Grove

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House. Circa late C18. Stone rubble with brick dressings. Roof with gable ends with scantle slates on front slope and rag slates on rear. Brick end chimney stacks. 2 room and cross passage plan with stair in passage and outshut on left-hand gable end. 2 storeys almost symmetrical 3-window front. Ground floor with 3 tall pointed arches with brick dressings. The openings have been partly blocked with large slates. Opening on left with early C19 2-light casement and opening on right with possibly late C19 2-light casement. Central entrance with C19 plank door and C19 open gabled timber porch with slate roof. First floor with 3 probably C19 2-light casement. Rear elevation with small stair window in pointed arch with brick dressings and late C18 or early C19 2-light casement with original glass. Interior with circa 1830s stair in passage and partition on left-hand side of passage removed. Cloam oven in fireplace on left-hand gable end with unmoulded timber lintel and brick segmental relieving arch above. Slight chamfered ceiling beams with straight-cut stops in right-hand room and unmoulded heavier timbers in left-hand room. Roof timbers only partly accessible with roughly cut fairly slight principals. Locally believed to have been used as a meeting house. Front and rear elevations remain unaltered and are particularly picturesque.

Listing NGR: SW9988578060