Virginia: Tidewater and Piedmont » The Peninsulas » Middlesex County » Wormeley Cottage Wormeley Cottage Details c. 1742. Virginia St. A good surviving example of the typical eighteenth-century “middling class” house, this weatherboarded frame structure has a side-hall plan, a massive end chimney, and a steeply pitched roof with dormers. Writing Credits Author: Richard Guy Wilson et al.