Olde Stoneham

This is a house built in the 15th century, with extensions added in the 17th and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed and has been plastered and weatherboarded, with a roof of handmade red plain tiles. The main range of the house consists of two bays facing southwest. To the left is a four-bay crosswing, featuring a 19th-century chimney stack in the second bay, a one-bay 17th-century extension to the rear, and a 19th-century bakery oven, covered by a lean-to roof with red clay pantiles. A small, 20th-century extension with a flat roof is situated beyond the bakery oven. A short 18th or 19th-century wing extends to the rear of the main range, with an internal chimney stack on the right.

The front of the house has a 19th-century casement window, a 18th or early 19th-century splayed oriel of four-sixteen-four lights supported by a twisted wrought iron stay, and an early 19th-century sash window with sixteen lights. Above the main door, there is a wrought iron bracket where a sign would have hung, now missing. The front of the house is plastered, while most of the rear and sides are weatherboarded with tarred elm boards.

Inside the passage, the left wall is lined with painted elm weatherboards, while the right wall is plastered. The crosswing features chamfered binding beams with step stops, and plain joists joined to them with unrefined tenons. There are edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates. The roof is a crownpost roof, which is incomplete, with some trenched rafters of the front bays remaining within the later roof structure. An adjacent bay has a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, unjowled posts, and primary straight bracing. A large 19th-century baker’s oven is present, complete with a cast iron door and splays.

The main range has two cambered tiebeams, both repaired in the 18th or 19th centuries, one with a bolted Y-bracket. The right end of the main range abuts the adjacent property at number 24 without additional studding, effectively blocking a window belonging to that property; the visible studding and trenched brace of number 24 show signs of significant weathering, suggesting that number 22 was built considerably later. The roof is of a clasped puclin construction.