8, Tucker Street

No. 8 Tucker Street is a house in a row, dating from the early 17th century and modified in the late 20th century. It is constructed of rendered rubble with a pantile roof. The building has a small two-room cross-passage plan, with the ground floor opened up to create one space and extensions added to the rear.

The exterior features two storeys and a two-window range, with three-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows that have drip moulds. The ground floor includes a late 19th-century shop window with a central doorway. The roof has coped verges and gable stacks.

Inside, the ground floor retains a fine dressed limestone chamfered four-centred arched fireplace set in rubble walling at the left gable end, along with a much-worn stone spiral staircase. The ceiling in this section is reported to have a central chamfered beam that supports early floor joists, although these are concealed by a late 20th-century plastered ceiling. A pair of beams is said to frame the cross passage, but neither is visible. The rear wall to the right has been mostly removed, with the upper wall now supported on boxed steel joists. The upper level was restructured after fire damage around 1985.

This building is an early survival of interest in this part of the city, with small casement windows on the upper storey and a steep roof pitch that clearly indicate its early origins.