The Nookin

The Nookin is a house, now used as offices, that likely dates from the 16th century but has a date of 1611 inscribed on the bressumer of the front gable. The building features rendered stone at the ground floor and timber framing above, with a stone slate roof. It has a T-plan layout, consisting of a linear three-unit range with a projecting wing at the center, which may be an addition.

The structure is two storeys high and includes a plinth, with the ground floor walls capped with stone. The first floor has a close-studded box frame. The gable of the front wing displays passing braces at the corners and a king-post truss with seven pairs of V-struts. The bressumer is inscribed with "EDRUS TAILOR T I.T. 1611. APR.10". The ground floor has an altered window, while the first floor features a four-light window with modified glazing and an apex finial on the front gable. The return walls of the wing also have passing braces and small framed-in windows. The rear roof is gabled and includes a gable chimney.

The main range has front walls and left gables that are similarly timber-framed, but the gable trusses have three pairs of A-struts, indicating that this part of the building is older than the front wing. The right-hand gable wall has an external chimney stack. The rear of the building has been mostly altered, but there is a large external chimney stack for the first unit and a small chamfered window at ground level beside it.

Inside, much of the timber frame is visible, including two closed frames in the main range that have king-post trusses with two pairs of A-struts and scored carpenter's marks. The first frame has been altered, leaving vacant mortices for angle-braces and studs. The left end features two longitudinal beams with ovolo moulding and a very large arched stone fireplace. There are Tudor-arched stone fireplaces on both floors of the front wing, another fireplace backing onto the ground floor of the middle unit, and a fourth at the right-hand end of the main range. A former external doorway in the rear wall has been enclosed by a later addition.