Oak Cottage The Nook

Oak Cottage and The Nook are a long-jetty house, originally built in the early 16th century and subsequently divided into two cottages. The building is timber-framed and has been plastered, with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. It consists of three bays aligned northwest-southeast, with a central chimney stack in the second bay from the northwest end. The southwest aspect features The Nook at the northwest end, which displays exposed beams and joists below the jetty. It includes a 20th-century door and three 20th-century casement windows on each floor, as well as a gablet roof. Oak Cottage, the southeast portion, has the jetty underbuilt and incorporates a 5-panel door with the top two panels glazed, a single 20th-century casement window on the ground floor, and two on the first floor.

The Nook’s interior reveals plain service-end features, including exposed close studding, jowled posts, edge-halved and bridled scarf joints in the northeast wallplate, grooves for sliding shutters, and mortises for diamond mullions. A faintly carved date of 1602 appears on the mantel beam of the inserted chimney stack, with renewed brickwork below. The joists are plain and horizontal. A richly carved folded-leaf design is found on the southeast side of the second transverse beam from the northwest end. An inserted ceiling above the first floor has a plain-chamfered beam with lamb's tongue stops, dating to the early 17th century.

Oak Cottage’s interior is generally similar, but the joists are richly moulded, and the axial and transverse beams feature rich folded-leaf carving and double-ogee mouldings. The roof is a clasped purlin construction with arched windbracing.