Stonehaven

This is part of a house, now a house, dating from the 15th century with a 17th-century addition, and altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed, with plaster and exposed framing, some painted brick and weatherboarding, and a roof of handmade red plain tiles. This two-bay crosswing, aligned northeast-southwest (with a gabled end facing the street), was originally part of a larger 15th-century hall house that extended to the southeast; a single bay survives as number 12. A 20th-century brick stack stands on the left side of the rear bay, and a 19th-century axial stack is on the front bay. A 17th-century three-bay extension runs to the rear.

The gable end has a late 19th-century tripartite sash window with 2-4-2 lights on the ground floor, and a late 19th-century sash window with 6 lights above. A four-panel door is also present. The jetty below is underbuilt with inserted studs, displaying exposed ends of horizontal section joists. Curved tension braces are visible on the first floor. The long elevation to the right has two early 19th-century sash windows with 16 lights on the ground floor, one more of the same type, and a late 19th-century horizontal sash window with 8 lights on the first floor.

The girt to the right of the crosswing is chamfered with step stops, which were originally internal and are now external. Empty mortises for former joists are filled with painted brick below. The crosswing features chamfered wallplates with step stops, edge-halved and bridled scarfs, a cambered tiebeam (with missing braces), and a plain crownpost roof with two down-braces to the tiebeam and axial braces 0.06 metre wide to the collar purlin (visible in the rear bay). Some wattle and daub infill remains in the original rear wall. One wallplate appears to overlap another, possibly indicating a former building that has since been demolished.

The rear extension has a chamfered axial beam with lamb’s tongue stops, two 20th-century transverse beams, plain vertical section joists, primary straight bracing, and a face-halved and bladed scarf in the left wallplate. A mid-19th-century half-glazed door with two panels and four lights, featuring handmade glass, is located on the ground floor of the crosswing.