Myrtle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Myrtle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-moat-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Myrtle Cottage, 1&2 Harper's Lane, Presteigne, LD8 2AN
- OS grid reference
- SO 314 643
- Coordinates
- 52.27325, -3.00557
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Myrtle Cottage is a two-storey, three-window roughcast cottage pair that has been partly modernised but still retains its original studding and brick infill in the walls. The roofs are tiled and slated, with No 2 having a steeper pitch. The cottages feature bargeboards and brick stacks, with rear stacks that have tall rubble bases. The south elevation of No 1 has three paired casements, while No 2 has a single window in the gable end. There is a boarded door located under a narrow hood.
Local climate
Myrtle Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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 — 5 transactions since 1995
- 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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