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The Stone Store at Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands is New Zealand's oldest surviving stone building. Part of the first Church Missionary Society station in New Zealand, the store was designed by John Hobbs to replace an earlier wooden store house. The Stone Store was erected between 1832 and 1836 by mason William Parrott, carpenter Ben Nesbitt and a team of Maori. Construction was of sandstone from Australia, local volcanic rocks and burnt shell mortar. Iron ties and window bars were forged by James Kemp, (though these unfortunately corroded the sandstone). Initially it had a wooden belfry on one side. The Stone Store was intended to be the base of the Church Missionary Society's trading post, selling produce from the farms at Te Waimate mission to ships, and European goods to Maori. Marsden planned to build a flour mill on the adjacent Kerikeri River, but this was eventually built at te Waimate instead. Stone was used to protect wheat from rats, for defence against Maori and to reduce the risk of fire.