Myrton Cottage, Monreith

Myrton Cottage is an earlier 19th-century house, likely reworked from former offices before 1848. It is a two-story building with an attic, presented as an asymmetrical gabled design. The construction utilizes small-packed rubble stone, with squared granite and whinstone quoins, and squared whinstone rybats. The windows have painted projecting cills, overhanging eaves with modern timber infill on the north and south sides, and slate-hung gabled dormer windows. The roof has a double plan.

The west, or principal, elevation features two broad gabled bays, with the right-hand bay advanced, forming an L-plan. A painted ashlar, classically detailed porch addition is found in the re-entrant angle, with a panelled door and a three-pane fanlight facing northwest; windows are present on the north and west faces, incorporating recessed aprons and slender pane detail, along with a cornice and blocking course to the porch. The advanced gable to the right has a relieving arch over a former carriage entrance, now blocked and containing a full-height tripartite window in a painted ashlar rectangular projection at ground floor level, complete with slender pane detail, cornice, and blocking course. A window sits in the gablehead. The gable to the left features a three-light window at ground floor level, with a rubble relieving arch and flanking quoins of a former carriage entrance, mirroring the design of the former archway, and a window in the gablehead. A dormer window is recessed centrally, situated on the transverse pitch between the gables.

The north elevation displays a gabled porch to the right of centre; a modern door is located to the east; an enlarged window is present to the north. A boarded door with an eight-pane fanlight is on the outer left, alongside a window. Small windows flank the porch, with a particularly small one to the right. Four dormer windows are spaced at intervals.

The east elevation features a lower, piended block adjoined to the gable to the right; a door and window face east, and another window is to the north. A gable is adjoined to the northeast of a stable block.

The south elevation is arranged as six bays (3-3), with a small modern lean-to porch in the penultimate bay to the right. A French window occupies the penultimate bay to the left. The remaining bays contain windows. Four dormer windows are spaced at intervals. A window is in the recessed bay to the extreme right. Glazing patterns vary, with timber window frames used throughout. Eight-pane glazing is found in casement windows at the first floor level; predominantly 18-pane glazing is used in sash and case windows at ground floor level on the north and south elevations, while the porch windows incorporate 16-pane glazing. Sash and case ground floor windows on the west elevation are multi-lying-pane. Short coped rubble stacks are present on both gableheads to the west and to the east, with a tall wallhead stack on the north return of the west elevation. The roof is covered in slightly graded grey slates, topped with octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted.