Description

SW 97 NE
4/4
31.10.86

ST ENDELLION
Myrtle Grove

II

House. Circa late C18. Stone rubble with brick dressings. Roof with gable ends
with scantle slates on front slope and rag slates on rear. Brick end chimney stacks.
2 room and cross passage plan with stair in passage and outshut on left-hand gable
end.
2 storeys almost symmetrical 3-window front. Ground floor with 3 tall pointed arches
with brick dressings. The openings have been partly blocked with large slates.
Opening on left with early C19 2-light casement and opening on right with possibly
late C19 2-light casement. Central entrance with C19 plank door and C19 open gabled
timber porch with slate roof. First floor with 3 probably C19 2-light casement.
Rear elevation with small stair window in pointed arch with brick dressings and late
C18 or early C19 2-light casement with original glass.
Interior with circa 1830s stair in passage and partition on left-hand side of
passage removed. Cloam oven in fireplace on left-hand gable end with unmoulded
timber lintel and brick segmental relieving arch above. Slight chamfered ceiling
beams with straight-cut stops in right-hand room and unmoulded heavier timbers in
left-hand room. Roof timbers only partly accessible with roughly cut fairly slight
principals.
Locally believed to have been used as a meeting house.
Front and rear elevations remain unaltered and are particularly picturesque.

Listing NGR: SW9988578060

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26408837

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)