Myrtle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1973. House.
Myrtle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallen-steeple-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Myrtle Cottage, 6 and 7, Myrtle Street, Northam
- OS grid reference
- SS 464 303
- Coordinates
- 51.05179, -4.19277
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Myrtle Cottage, located on Myrtle Street in Appledore, is a building that likely dates back to the 17th century or earlier and has been altered over time. It is an L-shaped, two-storey structure that includes attics and is set back behind a garden. The cottage features three half-dormers with later gables and has casement windows with glazing bars. The exterior is rendered and front colourwashed. A whitewashed stone wall surrounds the garden, which has wooden gates with turned balusters on the upper panels. Myrtle Cottage is part of a group of listed buildings on Myrtle Street.
Local climate
Myrtle Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
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