Myrtle Cottage, High Street, Town Yetholm

Myrtle Cottage is a long, two-storey block of vernacular design, dating from the earlier to mid-18th century. It consists of a pair of cottages and features a nearly symmetrical west elevation with three widely spaced windows on the first floor. The northern cottage has a central door, with a bipartite window to the left and one window to the right. The southern cottage has a bipartite window to the right of its door. The current two-storey appearance likely dates from the late 18th century, suggesting that it was raised from a single-storey block early on, as indicated by a visible line at the first-floor cills, when the windows may have also been enlarged.

The building is constructed from harled random rubble with slightly battered walls, a boulder base, and broad stone skews. The ground floor bipartite windows were altered in the 20th century, featuring concrete mullions and lintels, while the left door has a timber lintel.

There is a single window off-centre in the south gable, and the north gable retains a mutual gable from a demolished adjacent building, which has caused some structural damage to Myrtle Cottage at the first floor. The rear elevation includes narrower asymmetrically placed windows and single-storey outshot additions made of brick and stone.

The windows feature sash and case glazing with eight lying panes, and the doors are vertically boarded. The roof is steeply pitched and includes thack-stanes, indicating that it was originally thatched, along with two gablehead and one central ridge brick chimneystacks.