Description

SOWERBY BRIDGE DELFS LANE
SE 02 SW
(east side),
2/58 Cottonstones
Delfs Farmhouse and
attached barn
- II
Farmhouse and attached barn. House dated 1672, barn early C18. Coursed rubble,
house rendered, stone slate roofs. House of 2 storeys, 5 1st-floor windows with
3-bay barn projecting on left. House south front: quoins chamfered mullion windows;
central C20 glazed door in plain stone surround with tie stones, similar door to
right end; on left of central doorway is a chamfered round-arched light with sunk
spandrels and beyond that a 4-light, now 2-light window; on right is a 5-light,
now 3-light double-chamfered mullion window. 1st-floor windows, from left, of
2, 2, 2, 2 (now 3) and 2 lights, all 2-light windows lacking mullion. To centre
of lst floor are 2 plaques, the lower one inscribed " ? D", the upper with "? W",
M D,
1672"
the rest indecipherable. Ashlar coping. Two tabled ridge stacks flanking centre.
Rear: windows on ground floor formerly of 2 and 3 lights and on lst floor formerly
of 3 and 2 lights. Left return: a blocked 3-light window. Barn east front has
outshut on left, quoins, quoined cart-entry with monolithic lintel on right, mistal
door with plain stone surround on left of outshut and quoined doorway in north
end of outshut (addition to front of outshut not of special interest). West front
has added lean-to masking opposing cart-entry, part-blocked, with blocked square
opening above. Interior: barn has queen strut roof trusses, one of the tie beams
initialled 'HTAH'.

Listing NGR: SE0168221963

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26479349

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)