The Nook

The Nook is a house with origins from the 17th century or earlier, featuring a 19th-century extension on the right side. The building has undergone re-roofing and casing in the 19th and 20th centuries, and it includes a 20th-century porch. The structure is primarily timber-framed, with infill made of mud and stud, partly encased in brick, and has rendered brick gables and stacks, all colourwashed. The roof is covered with pantiles.

The layout consists of two rooms with a central lobby entry, pantry, and stairs, along with a two-room kitchen extension to the right. It is a single-storey building with an attic and has two windows. The late 18th to early 19th-century brickwork is visible on the gables and the lower half of the wall, forming a deep plinth that is chamfered to the right, with later 19th and 20th-century brick patching to the left.

The low gabled open porch shelters a 20th-century door with sidelights, flanked by a three-light casement window on the left and a two-light casement window on the right. The steeply-pitched roof features brick-coped and tumbled gables, with the left gable preserving the original very steep roof pitch. There is a large end stack on the left and an external end stack on the right, now part of the extension. The extension, constructed of colourwashed brick with a pantile roof, is also single-storey and includes a door and two casement windows.

At the rear, there is brick casing on the lower sections and ends, with a large timber wall plate or middle rail visible to the right. The rear features a wide eight-pane central casement flanked by single twelve-pane sliding sashes. There are three raking dormers, with the central one having a three-light sliding sash and the others having casements; the left dormer has boarded cheeks while the others are rendered.

Inside, the room on the left has a massive spine beam with cyma reversa mouldings and stepped cyma stops. The room on the right has a higher ceiling, which was likely originally open to the roof.