Myrtle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Myrtle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- weathered-spire-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Myrtle Cottage, Litton Cheney, DT2 9AD
- OS grid reference
- SY 553 905
- Coordinates
- 50.71308, -2.63349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Myrtle Cottage is an attached cottage dating from around 1700. It features chalk block walls and a thatch roof that is half-hipped on the left side. There are brick stacks at each gable. The cottage is two storeys high and has three windows, which are three-light wooden casements with glazing bars. The windows have wooden cills and lintels. The front door is centrally located and has flush and recessed panels, framed in wood and dating from the 19th century. Above the door, there is a bracketed wooden canopy that was added in the 20th century.
Local climate
Myrtle Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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