Myrtle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. A C17 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Myrtle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quartered-gravel-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Myrtle Cottage, West Overton, SN8 4EQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 147 677
- Coordinates
- 51.40825, -1.7891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Myrtle Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located with its gable end facing the street. The building features colourwashed sarsen stone and part brick construction, along with some timber framing. It has thatched and shingled roofs and stands two storeys tall. The left block consists of one bay with a former end lobby entry next to a gable stack. To the right, there is one bay of timber framing, followed by a 20th-century brick bay topped with a shingled roof. The entrance is now through a glazed porch leading into a stair hall within the framed bay, which has a glazed door and paned windows with timber lintels. The thatched roof has a quarter hip, and the gable stack was rebuilt in the 20th century. Inside, the stone bay features a chamfered spine beam with notched ogee and bar stops resting on a stone stack that shows signs of a former oven. The stair in the rear right corner has been replaced, and there is a timber-framed partition leading to the second bay. The roof has clasped purlins.
Local climate
Myrtle Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 2017
- 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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