Myrtle Cottage
MYRTLE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1345405
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- Statutory Address:
- MYRTLE COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1345405
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- Statutory Address 1:
- MYRTLE COTTAGE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MYRTLE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Selworthy
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 90414 47022
Details
SS9047 SELWORTHY CP ALLERFORD 23/72 Myrtle Cottage 22.5.69
GV II Semi-detached cottage. Possibly C17, altered late C18 and mid C20. Red sandstone random rubble, steeply pitched triple Roman tiled roof with bell cast, coped verge right, chamfered corner to junction of facade and gable end, large external stepped stack right gable end with slate-roofed bread oven projection in angle. Plan: 2-cell and cross passage, entrance resited at rear. Two storeys, 3 bays first floor leaded casements flanking pointed arch leaded iron casement, Gothick tracery head, large diamond leaded panes, ground floor 4 C20 2 and 3-light wooden casements, left 2 under brick lintels, right 2 wooden lintels. Centre 2 windows possibly blocked doorway. Entrance at rear. Interior not seen. Abuts The Three Bears (qv) to left. Probably converted to 2 dwellings in C18-C19. (Photograph in NMR).
Listing NGR: SS9041447022
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 265485
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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