Myrtle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Myrtle Cottage

WRENN ID
noble-tallow-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Myrtle Cottage, Carhampton, TA24 6NQ
OS grid reference
ST 006 427
Coordinates
51.17511, -3.42281
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Myrtle Cottage is a cottage that may have originally been an agricultural building, dating from the 17th to 18th century. It features roughcast over rubble and has a thatched roof that is hipped to the left. There is a brick stack rising from the eaves on the left side, a later brick stack at the rear, and another brick stack at the right gable end. The building has a plan with three cells and one and a half storeys, arranged in a 1:3 bay configuration. The early 19th-century leaded iron casements include two and three-light dormers that rise from just below the eaves. On the ground floor, there are two-light windows on the left and three and two-light windows on the right of a 20th-century plank door with an inserted light. Although the interior has not been seen, it is said to contain four side-lapped and notched collar trusses.

Local climate

Myrtle Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • 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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