Delfs Farmhouse And Attached Barn

Delfs Farmhouse and an attached barn, dating from 1672 for the farmhouse and the early 18th century for the barn. The farmhouse is constructed of coursed rubble, rendered on the front, with a stone slate roof. It is two storeys high, with five first-floor windows and a three-bay barn projecting to the left. The south front features quoins and chamfered mullion windows. A central 20th-century glazed door sits within a plain stone surround with tie stones, and a similar door is located at the right end. To the left of the central doorway is a chamfered round-arched light with sunk spandrels, and adjacent to that a four-light window, now reduced to two. On the right is a five-light, now three-light, double-chamfered mullion window. The first-floor windows, from left to right, have two, two, two, two (now three), and two lights, each a two-light window lacking mullions. Two plaques are set into the centre of the first floor; the lower one is inscribed “? D” and the upper one reads “? W, M D, 1672”, with the remainder of the inscription indecipherable. An ashlar coping tops the walls. Two tabled ridge stacks flank the centre of the roof. The rear elevation originally had windows on the ground floor of two and three lights, and on the first floor of three and two lights. The return to the left side of the farmhouse has a blocked three-light window. The east front of the barn has an outshut on the left side, quoins, a quoined cart-entry with a monolithic lintel on the right, a mistal door with a plain stone surround to the left of the outshut, and a quoined doorway in the north end of the outshut. An addition to the front of the outshut is not of special architectural interest. The west front has an added lean-to structure that obscures a former cart-entry, which is partially blocked, with a blocked square opening above it. Inside the barn, there is a queen strut roof with trusses, one tie beam being initialled 'HTAH'.