Myrtle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. A 18th century Cottage.
Myrtle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pale-flagstone-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- 18th century
- Address
- Myrtle Cottage, Blind Lane, Martock
- OS grid reference
- ST 455 180
- Coordinates
- 50.95969, -2.77706
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Myrtle Cottage is a semi-detached cottage located on Blind Lane in Bower Hinton, dating from the 18th century. The building is constructed from cut and squared ham stone, with coursed rubble on the sides and rear, and features ashlar dressings. The roof is covered with double Roman clay tiles and has high stepped coped gables, which have replaced the original thatch. There are brick chimney stacks at both ends of the cottage.
The cottage is two storeys high and has two bays. It features hollow-chamfered mullioned windows with unworked top mitres, consisting of three lights with iron-framed centre opening lights that have horizontal bar glazing. Between the bays, there is a recessed doorway with a plain beaded surround, which contains an early 20th-century door. There is a lean-to extension against the west gable and another lean-to at the rear. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Myrtle Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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