Myrtle House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. House. 1 related planning application.
Myrtle House
- WRENN ID
- silver-pilaster-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Myrtle House, 27, High Street, Axbridge, BS26 2AF
- OS grid reference
- ST 429 545
- Coordinates
- 51.28746, -2.819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Myrtle House is a late 18th-century house located on the south side of High Street in Axbridge. The building is roughcast and features end pilasters, a parapet with plain coping that ramps up to raised kneelers on each side and at the center, topped with stone ball finials. The roof is made of pantiles and has a brick stack.
The house is symmetrical, standing three storeys high with three bays. It has sixteen-pane sash windows, twelve-pane sash windows on the second floor, and six-light casements to the left of the ground floor. The ground and first floor openings are adorned with stepped voussoirs. The central door opening contains a six-panelled door, with the top two panels being glazed, and is complemented by a fanlight with radiating glazing bars, all under an open pediment supported by pilasters. Inside, there is an early 19th-century painted ceiling.
Local climate
Myrtle House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 3 transactions since 1995
- 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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