The Nook

The Nook is a two-storey domestic-revival style house, built sometime in the 19th century. The lower storey is constructed of brick, while the upper storey is timber-framed with white-rendered panels. The roof is red tile, topped with ridge cresting and moulded finials. External brick stacks are located on the left gable end and the rear wing, with an end stack on the rear wing. The right end wall features an external stack with a replacement tall stone shaft.

The front façade is asymmetrical, composed of three irregular bays, with the left-hand bay set back and the right-hand bay gabled with diagonal bracing. The central entrance bay forms a small tower topped with a leaded roof, bracketed eaves, a tall cupola featuring blank pointed wooden arches, a domed roof, and a weathervane. The entrance, sheltered by a bracketed gabled porch canopy with angle buttresses, projects slightly forward and has a boarded panel door set under a segmental pointed head. All windows are wood-framed casements with small-pane coloured frosted glass over transoms. To the right of the doorway, the entrance bay has a narrow single window on each floor. A small window is set into the left return of the entrance bay. The right-hand gabled bay features a four-light bay window with a dentil cornice, and a three-light window on the first floor, with the lintel inscribed with a painted date. The left-hand bay incorporates three-light, segmental-headed windows on each floor, with a gabled appearance to the upper storey.

The right end wall contains a pair of narrow transomed windows in the lower storey, to the left of the stack, and further diagonal bracing on the first floor. The left gable end also has diagonal bracing and is flanked by floor-to-ceiling small-pane windows in the lower storey. A rear wing, continuous with the gable end, has an inserted window in the lower storey and a three-light first-floor window. The wing is splayed at the rear, with roughcast rendering on that wall, and brick on the opposite wall enclosing a rear yard.

Inside, the entrance vestibule and straight enclosed staircase retain a panelled dado incorporating plaster relief panels depicting cherubs amongst foliage. The entrance also retains a decorative tile floor. Doorways have reed-moulded surrounds, but the doors themselves are replacements.