Low Wood Nook And Former Stables

Low Wood Nook and former stables is a house and stables that were used as an inn in the 19th century. The building is dated and inscribed over the entrance with "J. & E.A. (Addison) 1663" and has extensive alterations and additions from the 18th century. It features painted rendered walls on a chamfered plinth beneath a graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and stone chimney stacks. The structure is two storeys with an attic, consisting of two bays and a lower two-bay extension, with the stables located under a common roof to the left.

There is a 20th-century door in the original 17th-century surround beneath the inscribed lintel, which has a hoodmould with dated label stops. The building has double sash windows in late 18th-century painted stone surrounds, and a central pointed attic window that is currently boarded. The extension includes sash windows in painted stone surrounds, with the upper floor windows featuring glazing bars. The former stable has a plank door and casement windows, some of which are boarded, all within painted stone surrounds.

This building is notable as the birthplace of Thomas Addison, who later moved to London and contributed the ceiling for Torpenhow Church in 1689. He was also a relative of the essayist Joseph Addison, as referenced in C.R. Hudleston & R.S. Boumphrey's "Cumberland Families & Heraldry," published in 1978.