Mimms Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1988. House.

Mimms Cottage

WRENN ID
hushed-lancet-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 April 1988
Type
House
Address
Mimms Cottage, 14, Wormley West End, Brickendon Liberty
OS grid reference
TL 334 059
Coordinates
51.73637, -0.06938
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Mimms Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, renovated in the 18th century, with end extensions added in the early 19th century. It features a timber frame on a low plastered sill, covered in dark weatherboarding, with a red brick porch on the north side. The steep pitched roofs were originally thatched but are now covered with old red tiles. The cottage is 1½-storeys high and has a two-cell layout with an internal chimney and a lobby-entry plan. It is set well back from the road, facing south, and includes lean-to extensions at the ends.

The south front has three casement windows, with the middle window replacing a former central door, and three dormer windows, along with an entrance into the eastern outshut. The windows are two-lights flush leaded casements. On the north front, there are 18th-century three-light leaded casement windows, a cast iron framed window in the west outshut, and a 20th-century brick porch.

Inside, the cottage has exposed timbers, long straight braces in the walls, and an axial chamfered and stopped beam in the west room with exposed joists. The east room has axial joists only, and there are back-to-back open fireplaces.

Local climate

Mimms Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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