Myrtle Cottage, The Crescent, Town Yetholm is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 November 1993. Cottage.

Myrtle Cottage, The Crescent, Town Yetholm

WRENN ID
upper-rampart-sorrel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 November 1993
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 819 280
Coordinates
55.54583, -2.28807
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Myrtle Cottage is a late 18th century, two-storey, three-bay cottage that is part of an irregular terrace. The exterior is finished in painted render.

The entrance elevation features a central doorway with a panelled hardwood door, flanked by single windows on the right and above on the first floor. There is an enlarged window in the ground floor bay to the outer right, with a window on the first floor offset to the left. The outer left bay also has single windows on both floors.

The cottage has 12-pane sash and case windows and is topped with a grey slate roof. It has a brick mutual stack to the south and a rubble mutual stack to the north.

Local climate

Myrtle Cottage, The Crescent, Town Yetholm 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 lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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