The Nook And Studio House

The Nook and Studio House is a pair of houses with origins in the 18th century, rebuilt in the 19th century. They are constructed of coursed limestone and feature a stone slate roof, although part of it has been replaced by concrete tiles, with brick stacks.

The buildings are two storeys high and have a symmetrical arrangement of windows, with two sets of two windows on the first floor. The Studio House, located on the right, has a six-panel door on the left, where the top two panels are glazed and topped with a triangular-soffit lintel. It also features an ashlar doorcase with engaged Doric columns and an entablature that includes a name panel. The ground floor has multiple-pane horizontally-sliding sash windows with projecting sills, ashlar surrounds, and dripstones. Between the ground-floor windows, there is a 16-pane casement set in a shallow ashlar projection. External steps to the far right lead to a side-passage door located beneath the eaves.

The Nook has a three-quarter length conservatory or porch that encloses two doorways, each with triangular-soffit lintels, and a horizontally-sliding sash window. The ground-floor window beyond the conservatory on the left, as well as the first-floor windows, match those of the Studio House. The range features a brick end stack on the left and three ridge stacks, all adorned with stone bands.

The interior of The Nook has been inspected and reveals exposed reused oak lintels, which likely indicate the rebuilding of an earlier house on the site. The cottages are situated on a steep footpath that connects Buxton Road to Bagshaw Hill, known locally as 'Up the Chimney'.