The Nook Farmhouse

LOPPINGTON C.P. LOPPINGTON SJ 4629-4729 15/48 The Nook Farmhouse - (Formerly listed 28.10.60 as The Nook) GV II Farmhouse. Circa 1600 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with red brick infill on sandstone plinth; machine and plain tile roofs with pointed finials to gables. H-plan. 2 storeys and attics. Framing: close studding with middle rail to ground floor; continuously jettied first floor has moulded bressumer supported on carved corner posts and brackets; 4 small square panels to wall-plate with long straight tension braces to front, 3 square panels to side walls. 1:2:1 windows, late C19 and C20 casements, that to first floor of right gable with cill supported on C17 carved brackets; late C19 gabled eaves dormer to centre of hall range. Central gabled timber framed porch, largely rebuilt late C19 over massive C17 nail-studded oak door with fleur- de-lys pointed strap hinges. Prominent cruciform red brick axial ridge stack to right of hall range and late C19 external lateral red brick stack to left wing. Interior: inspection not possible at time of resurvey (January 1986) but noted as having exposed timber frame and chamfered ceiling beams to ground-floor rooms; several plank and muntin and panelled doors. Late C19 single-storey lean-to to rear of left gable and C20 lean-to porch to rear of hall range are not of special architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SJ4728529350