IRONSTONE RUBBLE
e.g. Vale Cottage and Tealby Vale Farmhouse.

The earliest houses in Tealby date from the late 18th Century and are constructed with ironstone rubble (ie. rough undressed stone). Most of the stonework is in a random fashion. Whilst the raw material would have been cheap, rubble construction would have required more skill.

COURSED STONE
e.g. Stockshill Cottage,Valeside, The Old Vicarage, School House and Mole End.

Some early 19th century houses have coursed stone on the front elevations and random fashion on the sides and rear.
The only building in Tealby to use the more expensive dressed stone (now that Bayons Manor has been demolished) is the Primary School, built in 1856.

BRICK QUOINS
e.g. The Old Chapel

Many of the 19th Century ironstone houses have brick quoins (corner stones).
Quoins are an attractive feature but they are included to add structural strength to the corners. The older buildings have very limited foundations and the use of lime based mortar (1 cement : 3 lime : 12 sand) means that the structures do move and could develop weak points at the corners.

PAINTED STONE
e.g. Crown House, Dovecote Cottage and Templars Cottages.

A few ironstone houses have been painted, mostly in white.
This was probably carried out to protect the underlying stone and mortar.

BRICK FRONTAGE
e.g. 16 and 18, 22, 31 and 33 Front Street, 3, 5 and 13 The Smooting, Brook Cottage, 6 and 7 Kingsway and Pear Tree Cottage (formerly Rose Cottage).

Several houses built in the mid-1800's were constructed with iron-stone rubble on the sides and rear with red brick front facades, mellow brick in the case of The Old Market Garden.
This change would probably be due to fashion; the brick would have been more expensive and so only used on the front façade.

ALL BRICK
e.g. Brick House/Burleys, Linden House and Kingsmead.

The first all-brick houses would have been the height of fashion when built in about 1830, all accentuated by Georgian doorways.Brick extensions on top of the stone walls would have been added when the roofs were raised.

BRICK ABOVE STONE
e.g. Wingates, Post Cottage and the house adjoining Fisher’s butchers shop

Roofing Materials
All but one of the ironstone houses have clay pantile roofs. The exception being Brook Cottage; it has a slate roof. Brick House and Casita in Front Street are the only other houses that still have slate. Stone Cottage in the Smooting used to have slate until about 30 years ago. Slate would be much more expensive than pantiles that were locally produced.

Rase Thatch, actually a modern house, and the Kings Head Inn are the only thatched buildings.

Roofing Details
Most houses have gable ends, but a few including The Vicarage, Brick House, Kingsmead, Old Market Garden, Watermill House and Old Cottage have hipped roofs.

Many of the 19th century buildings have decorated eaves.
e.g.Valeside, Curates Cottage, Goy's Cottage, 1 Kingsway and the Methodist Chapel.

The Old Vicarage has large, overhanging eaves with timber soffits (the underside of the eaves). This is unlike all other houses of that period in Tealby.
Several houses have coping on the gable ends with either stone…

e.g. School House, Linden House, Dovecote Cottage and the Primary School

or with brick….

e.g. School House, Linden House, Dovecote Cottage and the Primary School

Some of the gable ends with coping also have kneelers.

e.g. Linden House, Goy's Cottage and School House.

Kneelers are coping stones which form an integral part of the wall and which help to restrain the coping higher up the slope.
The additions of patterned eaves and gable ends were partly for decoration and partly for restraint.
Without exception, all chimney stacks are built of brick. The stacks are mostly located at the gable ends except for terraced houses where they are on the ridge.
Due to dilapidation, most of the original iron gutters and downpipes have been replaced by plastic although the gutters on the Village Hall are hewn from solid timber.
Some original gutter brackets can still be seen.

e.g. 16 Front Street and Blacksmiths Cottage.

Replacements can be seen on many houses in Caistor Lane and Front Street.

Windows and Doors
Most of the original windows have been replaced over the years due to deterioration. Some have been replaced by identical structures but many have been replaced by 20th century casement windows made of either wood, steel, white aluminium or uPVC. Some have blended well but frame thickness varies tremendously in high performance windows, and inappropriate choice of system and frame formation is the main reason why some installations look wrong.
The original style windows include the horizontally (Yorkshire) or vertically sliding sashes. Both have very thin glazing bars.
There are a few examples of Gothic style pointed windows

e.g. Linden House, Castle Farm and Stone Cottage.

There are several patterns of glazing in the vertically sliding sashes. E.g. the marginal panes at Goy's Cottage and the more conventional panes at Brick House and Crown House. There is a wide variety of lintels and window arches and surrounds. The oldest timber lintels can be seen at the end of the Smooting in

e.g Vale Cottage and Westview Cottage

Many houses have brick lintels over windows and doors

e.g. Valeside, Goy's Cottage and Crown House.

Some houses have ironstone lintels

e.g. The Old Vicarage and The Old Bakery.