Description

DITTISHAM
SX8654-SX8754 MANOR STREET
17/287 DITTISHAM (North side),
Myrtle Cottage including
front garden area wall,
railings gate-piers and
parterres

GV II

Small house, one of a pair with The Cider Cottage (qv). Circa mid C19
altered internally and extended at the back in late C20. Plastered stone
rubble. Grouted scantle slate roof with red clay ridge tiles hipped at
left hand end and gable end to right abutting adjoining house (the Cider
Cottage). Moulded cast iron gutters. 2 lateral stacks at the back with
louvred yellow day pots.
Plan: lateral stacks at the back with louvred yellow day pots central
entrance, each room heated from a rear lateral stack. In the late C20 the
2 rooms were made into one large room and a large extensiion was added at
the back.
Exterior: 2 storeys and basement. Symmetrical 3-window south front. Tall
circa mid C19 2-light casements with glazing bars and 8 panes per light.
Central doorway with a late C19 glazed and panelled door and a C20 gabled
porch with a slate roof.
Interior: Front garden area wall, railings gate-piers and parterres. The
walls have a local limestone ashlar plinth and are rustic quartz rubble
above, the left hand section has cast-iron railings above the plinth with
fleur-de-lis finials. A pier at the left hand end of the railings and the
2 gate-piers opposite the front doorway of the house are limestone
monoliths with chamfered corners, the gate-piers have crossed-gabled tops
with trefoils and inscribed Myrtle Cootage in upper case lettering. At the
base of the left hand gate-pier the date 1880 and name of the mason W
Blampey. The gate is C20. The path to the front doorway and the
quatrefoil parterres either side have patterned cobbled paths and dressed
limestone curb stones. The front garden is an interesting and unusual
survival.

Listing NGR: SX8657254807

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26647365

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings