Myrtle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. House.

Myrtle Cottage

WRENN ID
still-quoin-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 February 1990
Type
House
Address
Myrtle Cottage, Malborough
OS grid reference
SX 707 398
Coordinates
50.24435, -3.81381
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Myrtle Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with a 20th-century addition. It has rendered rubble walls and a hipped thatch roof, along with a rendered brick stack at the right-hand end. The original layout features a two-room plan, with the main heated room on the right side. A 20th-century extension has been added to the left. The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical two-window front on the original part, featuring early 20th-century two-light casements. The left-hand extension includes a large ground floor picture window. A 20th-century plank door is located at the centre of the original part, sheltered by a small trellis porch. At the rear, there is a 19th-century lean-to. The interior was inaccessible during the survey but may include features such as ceiling beams and an open fireplace.

Local climate

Myrtle Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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