Stone House

Stone House is a house located on Dymchurch Road, with a front wing dating from the 1830s and a truncated, altered wing of medieval origin at the rear. The building features stone rubble walls with galleting and brick dressings, including brick external chimney breasts. It has wooden paired bracket eaves and a slate hipped roof with flanking stacks. The house is two storeys high with a cellar and consists of two bays. The openings have stone block dressings, and the sash windows are four panes wide with segmental heads. The entrance is on the side elevation, featuring a round-headed doorway with a fanlight that has delicate tracery and a good six-panel door.

Inside, the stone-lined cellar has arched recesses and a brick floor, possibly with a re-used ovolo moulded and part stopped ceiling beam, along with brick and wood stairs. Both ground floor rooms have fluted window architraves with acorn wreaths, although the acorns were missing in 1986. Similar architraves are found on the four-panel doors. The straight baluster stairs lead to the front first floor rooms, which have similar architraves and four-panel doors, but with differently patterned angle blocks. The contemporary fireplace surrounds have 19th-century grates. The northeast first floor room features paired doorways, one leading to a plainer rear dressing room.

The rear wing has stone rubble walls with brick repairs and a steep plain tile roof with a half-hip to the southeast. There are various later window openings. The interior may have been refloored at the same time as the construction of the front wing, which included an inserted brick chimney breast with a 19th-century first floor fireplace surround and grate. In the southeast internal wall adjoining the front wing, there is a segmental dressed stone window arch with a splayed cill and reveals, flanked by a shallow segmental stone recess on the left and a dressed stone doorway with a similar segmental head of stone blocks on the right. A similar splayed recess is found in the center of the attic gable, though its head is truncated for the roof of the 19th-century front wing. There are two opposing stone doorways in the side walls, close to the southeast wall. The northern half of the rear wing was demolished around 1960.