Point Neptune

Point Neptune is a house dating from around the middle of the 19th century, with significant alterations and extensions in 1864 for William Rashleigh of Menabilly, and again in the later 19th century, with further alterations in the 20th century. The exterior is of coursed slate with granite dressings, featuring a low-pitched hipped slate roof with deep bracketed eaves. The stacks have moulded granite caps and yellow clay pots.

The original mid-19th century house, constructed of painted brick and partially slate-hung, retains a low-pitched slate roof with deep eaves and verges to the gable ends. It's now part of a larger L-shaped range created in 1864, extending to the southwest with an entrance front facing west, and with further additions to the south and southeast. A single-storey hall was created between these elements, with a projecting drawing room to the south. The overall style is Victorian Italianate.

The west front is symmetrical, with two and three storeys, and a projecting central bay. The eaves are raised as gables. It has granite stringcourses and round-headed, two-light windows with keystones, imposts, and continuous cills; ground floor windows have straight heads. Sashes are without glazing bars. A central round-headed doorway features a keyblock, imposts, a traceried fanlight, and a panelled door. A later bay is set back to the right.

The south front is arranged with three bays, with wings on either side and a projecting single-storey range in the centre. Rusticated granite quoins, stringcourses, and two-light round-headed windows with colonnettes and continuous impost and sill courses are present, along with a heavily battered plinth and deep bracketed eaves. A three-storey range is set back at centre. Sash windows are without glazing bars.

The east side features a tall southeast wing and, to the right, the original mid-19th century house which is partly slate-hung, with 12-pane sashes.

The interior retains 19th-century joinery, including panelled doors, window shutters, moulded ceiling cornices, and bolection chimneypieces. The centrally located single-storey hall features a fluted Roman Doric colonnade with an entablature above a glazed segmental vault. The principal staircase has been replaced. The first floor was not specifically inspected.

Point Neptune is a noteworthy example of a Victorian Italianate villa overlooking the River Fowey estuary.