Kimpton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1983. House.
Kimpton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- worn-keep-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kimpton Cottage, Ardeley
- OS grid reference
- TL 321 268
- Coordinates
- 51.92413, -0.07947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kimpton Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century or early 18th century, which was divided in the 19th century but is now a single residence. It features a timber frame set on a stucco sill, with roughcast walls and weatherboarded ends, topped by a steep thatched roof. The house is two storeys high and has a three-cell layout with end chimneys, facing south. At the rear, there is a slated outshot under a catslide roof.
The eastern side has a large external red brick gable chimney, while the western side has a smaller internal red brick chimney. The south front has three windows on each floor and two doors, with small inclined hoods above the lower windows and doors. The windows are 19th-century two-light flush casements. The main door on the western part has four panels, and the door on the eastern part is a plank door featuring a heart-shaped pierced escutcheon with 'TL' flanking the keyhole. There are stone sheds at each end of the property, but these are not of special interest.
Local climate
Kimpton Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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