Delley Farmhouse Including Garden Wall And Outbuilding Adjoining At The South West

Delley Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the mid to late 17th century, likely incorporating an earlier structure, with renovations in the 1980s and an outbuilding constructed around the late 19th century. The main house is built of stone rubble, with the rear wings rendered on cob footings; it has a bitumen-painted slate roof and end stacks. The adjoining outbuilding is of stone rubble and framed construction with brick infill and a slate roof, with gabled ends. The original plan was a “U” shape, with the main range facing south, comprising two rooms and a through passage. Rear wings extend at right angles: a parlour to the north-east and a dairy wing to the north-west, creating a courtyard. The original location of the 17th-century kitchen is unclear, though it may have been the room on the west side, which exhibits evidence of a smoking chamber. The north-east room contains two bread ovens, which may be 18th or 19th-century additions. A small outshut at the rear of the main range serves as a corridor connecting the wings. A straight staircase rises from the through passage adjacent to the east room. A stone rubble garden wall, with an outbuilding built into the slope of the land, adjoins the house to the southwest; this outbuilding has loft access on its east side. The outbuilding’s west side features stone rubble piers supporting a slate floor to the loft, which in turn supports a timber-framed structure with brick infill, and a doorway leading into the loft on the east side. The interior, having undergone recent renovation, retains several features of interest, including an ovolo-moulded scroll-stopped crossbeam with exposed joists and an open fireplace with a chamfered stopped lintel in the west room of the main range. A blocked fireplace in the east room retains parts of an ovolo-moulded scroll-stopped lintel. A 17th-century chamfered doorframe is visible in the through passage. The north-east room has a massive chamfered crossbeam, exposed joists, and two bread ovens, while the north-west dairy has closely-spaced crossbeams. The first floor retains two 18th-century two-panel doors. Roof trusses in the north-east wing have halved collars fixed with wooden pegs, and the outbuilding’s roof utilizes pegged tie beam trusses.