Delmerend Farm

Delmerend Farm is a late 16th and early 17th century farmhouse, now a private house. It is constructed of Totternhoe stone with an internal chimney to the middle room and an inserted floor with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. Attics were created in the 17th century, accompanied by a large projecting east end chimney with a staircase beside it. In the late 18th century, the house was refaced in brick, and converted into two houses in the 19th century, undergoing restoration around 1930 with low extensions added to the west and southeast.

The building has a timber frame on a red brick sill; the north front is roughcast, while the rear and ends are in red brick with random blue bricks. Dark weatherboarding covers the red brick of the extensions. It has steep old red tile roofs. The house is long, two storeys high, with attics and a cellar, facing north, with lower extensions to the rear at the southwest and west ends. The north front features four windows to the first floor, each of two lights with small panes in cast iron casements within wooden frames. The ground floor has three two-light windows and one single-light window. A hip-roofed pointed gable contains a five-light window to the right of the front door. A massive external chimney stands next to the road, featuring three flues, a pilaster rib on the shaft, and a corbelled top. A large internal chimney rises a third from the east, following the rear slope of the roof. There is also an internal west gable chimney with a pilaster rib and corbelled cap. The east end has a two-storey section, a single-storey lean-to in red and blue brick, and a two-light cast iron window on the first floor. The brick-on-edge casing covers the tie-beam of the east gable. A gabled dormer is visible on the rear at the east end. The interior retains chamfered axial beams in the middle and eastern parts, but axial joists in the western part.

The original plan consisted of three rooms, with a smoke-bay unusually positioned to the west of the middle room, a cross-passage at its eastern end, and the form and size of the fireplace at the east end suggesting it later became a parlour. Interior features include exposed framing with jowled posts, tension bracing in the cross-wall, and a clasped-purlin roof with collar-and-queen strut trusses and curved wind-braces. An edge-halved scarf is present in the front wallplate. Unusual ashlar stonework is used for the large internal chimney, with two round-headed chamfered niches in the cellar and the original fireplace on the first floor.