The Stone Store is the oldest undamaged stone building in New Zealand, a two-storey Georgian warehouse built between 1832 and 1836 by the Church Missionary Society. It sits at the edge of the Kerikeri Basin beside the mission's landing place on the river, and its solid basalt walls give it a permanence that belies the uncertainty of the colonial era in which it was built.
The building was designed to store trade goods, supplies for the mission, and later served as a munitions depot during the Flagstaff War of the 1840s. In the decades that followed it was used as a post office, a native school, a polling station, and eventually a general store. Heritage New Zealand now manages it and has restored the interior to reflect different periods of its history. The ground floor operates as a heritage retail shop, while the upper floors are open for viewing.
Together with Kemp House next door and St James' Church nearby, the Stone Store forms the Kerikeri Mission Station, one of the most significant colonial heritage precincts in the country. All three buildings can be seen on a single walk of less than a kilometre.