The Nook

The Nook is a house dating from the early 16th century, built in two phases. It was extended, altered, heated, and floored in the 17th century, with further alterations in the 19th century. The structure features a timber frame with brick casing and pebbledash, topped with tiled roofs. Originally, it had a two-bay open hall, which is accompanied by a slightly later two-bay, two-storey chamber wing to the right, aligned on the same axis.

The hall includes an entrance and two casement windows set in reveals, with cambered heads on the ground floor. There is an external stack to the left with one offset, while the chamber wing has a larger external stack with offsets at the front and a slightly higher ridge. A 17th-century staircase wing is located at the rear where the two builds meet. To the rear right, there is a gabled lower addition with an external stack, which is now part of a further lean-to addition. The left return features a full-height 19th-century canted bay with a plinth. The hall has a short rear addition under a catslide roof.

Inside, the building showcases cambered tie beams and jowled posts, a crown post roof in the hall, and a clasped purlin roof in the chamber wing. There is also a stop-chamfered binding beam.