Tuckenhay House Including Terrace Balustrade Immediately South East

House dated 1799, remodelled and extended circa 1840. Constructed in rendered stone rubble with an asbestos slate hipped roof behind a parapet. The right-hand wing features a natural slate roof with pedimented gable end. Stacks rise over side walls with paved octagonal shafts and yellow clay pots.

The plan is rectangular with double depth. The principal front contains a drawing room to the left and a slightly smaller dining room to the right, with an entrance hall between them leading to a stairwell at the back. The kitchen occupies the back right, with service rooms and a back stair at the rear left. The circa 1840 remodelling added a single-storey wing with basement to the right, containing a large billiard room over a coach house accessible at the lower end. A rear left wing, also probably built circa 1840, contains a wash house with a loft above.

The exterior presents two storeys with a symmetrical three-bay front. A moulded cornice runs across with a blocking course punctuated by a lion couchant at the centre, flanked by rusticated quoins. Late 18th-century tripartite sashes fill the bays—ground floor with 5:15:5 panes and first floor with 4:12:4 panes—each topped with a 19th-century cornice on console brackets. The central doorway comprises a wooden Tuscan porch with columns and pilasters supporting an entablature, panelled reveals, and a panelled door with rectangular overlight of ornate tracery. The porch soffit is panelled and sits within a rusticated surround.

The left elevation features a late 18th- or early 19th-century glazed garden door and a side door to the service wing, with asymmetrical fenestration. The circa 1840 right-hand wing displays three large symmetrically disposed blind windows at the front with cornices on console brackets, the eaves also supported by console brackets. Ground level drops sharply here, creating a deep plinth with moulding. The right return of the wing has a pedimented gable and large 19th-century tripartite sash of 6:12:6 panes with console-bracketed cornice above. Below at lower ground level sits a segmentally arched coach-house doorway with plank double doors. The back elevation contains various later sashes and casements with a replaced stair window and an early 19th- or late 18th-century panelled back door at the centre beneath a later canopy; one jamb quoin is dated 1799. The service wing rear features external steps to a loft doorway and a passageway through to the garden.

A mid-19th-century rendered balustrade with vases over piers flanks the central steps immediately in front of the house.

Internally, the front left room retains a reeded plaster cornice and 20th-century chimneypiece; the front right lacks a moulded cornice and contains a glazed tile 1930s chimneypiece. Both rooms have panelled window shutters. The billiard room features a coved ceiling with cornice and roof light and a large 1930s chimneypiece. Behind the entrance hall an elliptical arch on decorative brackets opens to a small open well staircase with stick balusters and moulded mahogany handrail ramped to newels and wreathed over a column newel at the curtail, with open string and scrolled tread ends.

The first-floor bathroom was fitted in the 1930s with large celadon green glass tiles with black banding at wall tops and a semi-circular mirror over the bath engraved with a sailing ship on a wavy sea. It retains original fittings including a green bath and hand-basin.

The house is said to have been the manager's house for Tuckenhay Paper Mill.