The Nook Farmhouse

The Nook Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600, with later additions and alterations. It is timber framed with red brick infill set on a sandstone plinth, topped with machine and plain tile roofs featuring pointed finials on the gables. The building has an H-plan layout and consists of two storeys and attics. The framing includes close studding with a middle rail on the ground floor, and the first floor jetties out continuously, supported by a moulded bressumer resting on carved corner posts and brackets. The wall-plate features four small square panels with long straight tension braces at the front and three square panels on the side walls. The windows are arranged in a 1:2:1 pattern, with late 19th century and 20th century casements; the first-floor window on the right gable has a sill supported by 17th century carved brackets. There is a late 19th century gabled eaves dormer at the centre of the hall range. A central gabled timber framed porch, largely rebuilt in the late 19th century, covers a massive 17th century nail-studded oak door with fleur-de-lys pointed strap hinges. A prominent cruciform red brick axial ridge stack is located to the right of the hall range, with a late 19th century external lateral red brick stack on the left wing. The interior was not inspected during the last survey in January 1986, but it was noted to have an exposed timber frame and chamfered ceiling beams in the ground-floor rooms, along with several plank and muntin and panelled doors. There is a late 19th century single-storey lean-to at the rear of the left gable and a 20th century lean-to porch at the rear of the hall range, which are not of special architectural interest.