Moultonborough Neck and Long Island
The Neck runs out between Moultonborough Bay and Center Harbor, and a bridge carries the road on to Long Island, the biggest island on Winnipesaukee. Out there the houses are about the water. Lots that fall toward the shore mean a walkout basement and a deck on the lake side.
That lake side is where veneer does the most good. A tall concrete foundation faced in natural stone stops reading as a basement wall and starts looking like part of the ledge along the shoreline.
Eight miles of Moultonborough Bay
Moultonborough Bay reaches about eight miles from the southern corner of town up toward the town center. Shore homes along it face every direction, and that changes how hard the wind, sun and driving rain hit a given wall.
Before he plans the stone, Kevin looks at which way a wall faces, where the roof sheds water and where the snow ends up. Those three things decide how the flashing and the bottom edge of the veneer get built, and they matter more on a north wall that stays wet than on one that dries out every afternoon.
Inland: Lake Kanasatka, Red Hill and the Castle side
West of the town center, Lake Kanasatka has its own ring of camps and homes. Red Hill rises in the northwest. To the east the Ossipee Mountains climb to Mount Shaw, the high point in town, with Castle in the Clouds on the slope above the lake.
Lots on this side of town climb, and a house set into a slope ends up with one end of its foundation out of the ground and the other buried. Stone veneer on porch columns, deck posts and the exposed end of a foundation helps a house on a hill look settled instead of perched.
The Squam corner
Squam Lake touches the northwest corner of Moultonborough. Squam frontage is quieter and more wooded than Winnipesaukee, and the stone that suits it is plain: fieldstone in grays and browns, darker joints, nothing busy. If your house is on that side of town, say so when you text, because it changes the stone Kevin will suggest.
Other work along Route 25 and Route 109
Route 25 and Route 109 cross at the town center, and Jones Legacy works all along both. Besides veneer, that means New Hampshire fieldstone walls, retaining walls for steep driveways and lake slopes, flagstone walkways, stone steps, patios, and interior and exterior painting.
