Delamere House And Barn Attached On West

Delamere House is a manor house with an attached barn, dating to the mid-15th century with substantial rebuilding in the mid-17th century, likely by the Pulter family. A 17th-century barn adjoins the house on the west. The house is constructed of red brick, incorporating the timber frame of an earlier west wing. It has steep, old red tile roofs. The barn is timber-framed and has dark weatherboarding and a steep, now slated, pitched roof.

The house is set back from the road and has a wide, two-storey layout with a cellar and attics. It is two rooms wide and possesses gable chimneys. The main entrance is centrally located, leading to a passage and a rear staircase flanked by service rooms. The rooms are arranged as a hall on the west and a parlour on the east, each with a closet flanking an internal gable chimney lit by a front window near the corner. The S front is symmetrical, although the entrance is slightly off-centre. There are four windows per floor and two dormers in shaped gables linked to the parapet, set above a moulded brick cornice with dentils. Windows have hollow chamfered mullions and surrounds, built with plastered brick, and transoms to the ground floor. The central windows are four-light casements, the outer corners have two-light casements, and the attic dormers feature three-light casements. The north front features the present entrance, two pointed gables of unequal size, and irregularly placed mullioned windows with cornices over those on the first floor. The main entrance is an old, nail-studded, oak door. Inside, there is an oak staircase with turned balusters and jowled posts of the former timber-framed west wing. A doorway with a four-centred head, situated under the staircase, provides access to cellars that formerly extended under the west wing, which was demolished (Oldfield’s c.1700 notes indicate foundations suggesting a house three times the present size). Fireplaces have chamfered arches, typically four-centred, though some are three-centred. Two rooms retain early 17th-century panelling and chimneypieces, with an elaborate overmantle in the main west room on the ground floor: this includes Ionic columns framing arcaded panels and carrying an entablature with a strapwork frieze extending around the room.

The attached barn on the west has three bays facing south into a yard and features jowled posts, long straight tension braces, straight braces to tie-beams, one purlin to each slope of a clasped-purlin roof, and trusses with inclined queen-struts to collars. A face-halved bladed scarf joint is visible in the wallplate. It is said that Delamere House was associated with Cardinal Wolsey.