The Nook
THE NOOK, 6, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162049
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Nook
- Statutory Address:
- THE NOOK, 6, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162049
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Nook
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE NOOK, 6, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE NOOK, 6, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Snaith and Cowick
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 64029 22107
Details
SNAITH AND COWICK HIGH STREET SE 6422 (north-west side) Snaith 12/62 No 6 (The Nook) (formerly listed as The 14.2.67 Nook) GV II House. c1720-30 with early C19 extension to left and bow window to rear; re-roofed in late 1960s. Front of fine red brick in Flemish bond with scored pointing, rendered to lower section of left extension; painted sandstone ashlar dressings. Pantile roof. Plan: double-depth, with 2-room central entrance-hall east front, narrow addition with through-passage set back to left, and addition set back to right with bow window to west garden front. 2 storeys, 4 bays, with recessed fifth bay to left. Plinth with chamfered rustication; quoins. Flight of 5 stone steps to entrance in second bay with early C19 6-faceted-panel door beneath dentilled cornice and overlight with geometrical glazing, in original ashlar doorcase with architrave and consoles carrying moulded cornice and hood. C20 2-pane casements in original openings with moulded ashlar sills and channelled wedge lintels with fluted keystones. Coped parapet. End stacks. Extension to left has segmental-headed board door, first-floor sash window with margin lights. West garden front has round-headed stair window with keyed rubbed- brick arch and later C19 glazing with margin lights, and large stuccoed semicircular bow window (perhaps originally full-height) with central 2-fold glazed door flanked by 20-pane sashes with sills beneath bell-shaped canopy, plain frieze and cornice. Interior. C18 details include: dining room, ground floor right, with bolection panelling, moulded dado rail, panelled ashlar chimney-piece with wave-moulded keystone and panelled overmantel flanked by fluted Doric pilasters carrying full entablature with triglyphs and mutules hung with guttae, continued as cornice around room, pair of round-headed fielded-panel doors in architraves with scrolled bracket keys; contemporary first-floor right bedroom has fielded panelling, moulded dado rail, similar chimney-piece and flanking Doric pilasters carrying entablature with pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice, continued around room; fine flying staircase with ramped and wreathed corniced handrail, column-on-urn balusters with square knops, pronounced curtail step with twist baluster newel, and panelled section with fluted Doric pilasters and pulvinated frieze supporting the open flight of moulded and panelled steps; moulded plaster cornices to hall and first-floor rooms; panelled window shutters and 6-fielded-panel doors in architraves throughout. Early C19 ribbed cornice with paterae to rear right drawing room with bow window; contemporary cornice to room above. Reported to have had a third storey and/or a panelled parapet. A distinguished house in a prominent position, with good interior details.
Listing NGR: SE6402922107
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164923
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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