Delphinium Cottage

Delphinium Cottage is a 17th-century cottage, possibly with an earlier core, and was modernized with a 20th-century extension. It is constructed of rendered local stone rubble, possibly with some cob, featuring stone rubble stacks. One stack has an original Beerstone ashlar chimneyshaft with soffit-moulded coping. The roof is thatched.

The cottage was originally built with a three-room plan, situated on a gentle hillslope facing south-south-east. The left (west) room, currently the kitchen, is unheated. The central room is heated by an axial stack backing onto the unheated room. The right (east) end room has a gable-end stack and a square stair turret projecting to the rear. The west room is a 20th-century extension and the stack to the central room may also be a 20th-century addition. The original design suggests it was part of a larger house, likely the hall and inner room of a three-room-and-through-passage plan, with the passage and service end room now demolished. All original features appear to date from a single early to mid-17th-century building phase.

The cottage is two storeys high, with a 20th-century porch on the west end and rear outshots. The front facade has a regular, though not symmetrical, three-window arrangement, with a smaller fourth first-floor window. Most windows are 20th-century casements with glazing bars, however, the two right-hand ground-floor windows are original early to mid-17th-century Beerstone ashlar three-light windows with ovolo-moulded mullions, hoodmoulds, and rectangular panes of leaded glass. A 20th-century glazed door is set within an inserted doorway at the right end, also with a contemporary hood.

Inside, the central room has a 17th-century crossbeam with deep chamfers and step stops. An early fireplace here is blocked by a 20th-century grate. The right room's crossbeam is chamfered with scroll stops. A large fireplace with an oak frame and an oven is located in this room. The staircase is 20th-century, but the stair turret is believed to be 17th-century. The roof structure is early to mid-17th-century, featuring A-frame trusses with pegged dovetail-shaped lap-jointed collars.