Myrtle Cottage

Myrtle Cottage is a mid-19th century cottage, possibly older, located in Churston Ferrers. It features solid roughcast walls and slated roofs, with the rear roof being hipped. There are roughcast chimneys on each end wall. The cottage is arranged with two rooms wide and two rooms deep, connected by a central through-passage. The front and back sections of the cottage were built at different times and levels.

A winding staircase is situated between the passage and the left front room, with a small larder in front of it. Behind the left side of the house, there is a cobbled, walled courtyard that includes the former laundry of the Churston Estate along the left side. The cottage is two storeys tall, while the laundry is single-storey. The front facade has three windows and a central doorway, which features a chamfered stone surround. The original door has two long upper panels that are now glazed and a later board nailed over the lower part.

The windows have small-paned wooden casements, with two lights containing six panes each on the ground floor and three lights with ten panes each on the upper floor. There is also a small-paned window in the right side wall. The rear wall includes small-paned wooden casements and an old plank door. The laundry has similar casements and half-glazed doors, along with ridge-tiles that have ventilators.

Inside, the ground-floor front rooms have plain dados with a moulded rail and skirting. A segmental-arched doorway with a moulded architrave leads from the passage into a lobby between the staircase and the larder. Above the larder door is a grille with thin square wooden balusters. At the top of the staircase, there is a guard-rail with similar balusters. The first-floor right front room features panelled cupboards with L-hinges. Several rooms have two-panelled doors with one-fillet ovolo-moulded designs. The roofs have not been inspected. Myrtle Cottage is depicted on the Churston Ferrers tithe map from 1839.