  We propose a system of partial differential equations with a single constant
delay $\tau > 0$ describing the behavior of a one-dimensional thermoelastic
solid occupying a bounded interval of $\mathbb{R}^{1}$. For an initial-boundary
value problem associated with this system, we prove a global well-posedness
result in a certain topology under appropriate regularity conditions on the
data. Further, we show the solution of our delayed model to converge to the
solution of the classical equations of thermoelasticity as $\tau \to 0$.
Finally, we deduce an explicit solution representation for the delay problem.
