Tubney House

Tubney House is a house dating from the early 17th century, with substantial remodelling and extension in the early 19th century. The walls are stuccoed to resemble stone ashlar, and the roofs are covered with Welsh slate, with numerous brick stacks. Originally an L-shaped plan from the 17th century, it was remodelled into a double-depth plan in the early 19th century, exhibiting a Gothick Revival style.

The house is two stories high, with a five-window front. The early 19th-century two-story canted bay on the right of the centre has a 20th-century porch enclosing a tall, pointed-arched entrance of Gothick style, with panelled doors and hood moulds over Gothick windows with two-light casements. The gabled front of the outer bay features an early 17th-century three-light stone mullioned attic window with ovolo moulding, and a crenellated, canted two-story bay. This bay includes a mullioned and transomed window, similar in style to the earlier one, over an early 19th-century six-pane sash. To the left of the entrance is a three-window range with hood moulds over eight-pane sashes, and pointed-arched French windows on the ground floor. A crenellated parapet extends across the front.

The right side wall is a three-story, three-window range with label moulds over sashes. The rear elevation has six-pane sashes and gabled outer bays. The right bay features label moulds over six-pane sashes and adjoins an early 19th-century semi-circular bay with a chamfered stone doorway, two-light chamfered stone-mullioned windows, and a single splayed light.

The interior includes cellars with two 17th-century chamfered and step-to-ogee-stopped beams, some of which are rotten. The hall features cinquefoil-panelled reveals to the front door and Gothick-style panelled doors. An early 19th-century staircase, originally from around 1720-30, constructed with iron-twist balusters on vase supports, was reset in the early 19th century as a straight-run stair with a balcony. Segmental arches lead to a lobby and rooms on the right. One room has an early 19th-century fireplace carved with Diana the Huntress, and a cased beam. A room to the rear of this, accessed through a six-panelled door with a Gothick overlight and plasterwork arch, features a fine plaster boss in the ceiling. The first floor has early 19th-century panelled doors, some with Gothick traceried heads. A fireplace and panelling from around 1720-30 are located on the right, while a Gothick fireplace is situated above the drawing room on the left. The roof is a 19th-century king-post design.